“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel like that.”
UK-based artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas have created twenty inflatable tentacles extended from the roof and several windows of a two-story warehouse in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. The purple tentacles range from 32 to 40 feet, and curl upwards to reveal green suction cups lining their inner surface. Luker and Estrellas have been collaborating on inflatable sculptures since 1996, you can see more of their recent works on Instagram and their website, Designs in Air.
I have memories, but they’re not real. They’re just implants.
REPLICANT
[noun]
1. (in science fiction) a genetically engineered or artificial being created as an exact replica of a particular human being.
2. one who replies.
Etymology: science fiction usage derived from Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner, an adaption of Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Ultimately derived from Latin replicare, “to copy”.
