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"Still Life With Stem Cells"
All of Patricia's pieces in "We Are Family" are supposed to hit a nerve and provoke questions. What is a human? What is an animal? What is alive, and what is simply an inanimate object? When does one species become another? What rights do animals deserve? What rights do humans deserve? What about the rights of things whose lives are ambiguous and debatable, such as stem cells and embryos?
These are the questions we face today. And while we individually may be absolutely sure of the right answer in our minds, perhaps by seeing these sculptures, it invokes emotions and thoughts that further contradict our opinions- empathy, disgust, fear, fascination, humor.
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