A slow moving human condition allows organising structures such as morals and ethics to take root and develop. Culture is an interactive product. Science and technology have been developing at an explosively accelerating rate throughout this century. The relatively stable human condition is dissolving like morning mist as advances in genetic engineering, medical science, computing, communications technology etc. transform the meaning and conditions of life and work. Culture, like nature, is defined by its barriers.
Cultural barriers are more moveable and emphemeral than natural barriers.
Cultural barriers are built rather than found. Science and technology tend to challenge and overrun natural barriers by either destroying them completely or resetting them as more difficult challenges. Consider the above example of the 'liger' where a natural isolating mechanism like geography is overcome by transportation technology- in the zoo species which previously roamed exclusive habitats can be brought together and bred. The project explores a natural barrier between two very different things. A barrier that keeps these two things apart.