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Human Body Shop by Eliot Postma
Royal College of Art student Eliot Postma has created a conceptual project where pets could be used to harvest human organs for transplants.
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Called Human Body Shop, the project includes proposals for models to commemorate the sacrificed animals, which would be made of the cremated remains set in resin and mounted on a plinth made of the pet's skin.
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See also: Life Support by Revital Cohen, a conceptual project about turning animals into medical devices. See Dezeen's top ten stories about animals here.
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Here are a few more details from Postma:
In memory of our pets
Cremated sheep's remains set into clear resin
With organ donor shortages across the globe, Eliot Postma explores a future in which pets are engineered to grow replacement human parts.
This doll questions a new relationship between pet and owner, happily living side by side until a transplant is required. Once an organ has been harvested the doll is made as a memorial to the pet. The cremated remains are set into a clear resin model of the pet and stand on a plinth of the sheep's skin. The subtle human mutations acting as a reminder of the reason for its existence and sacrifice.
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Eliot presented this product in the Royal College of Art Architecture show as part of a wider project called 'Human Body Shop'.