Ken Feingold’s “The Animal, Vegetable, Mineralness of Everything” sculpture was introduced to the art world in 2004, and then to the Internet in 2011 when it was uploaded to YouTube. And for some reason, people keep finding it and reminding the rest of us it exists, even though it’s terrifying; Esquire is the latest to rediscover it.
Referred to as a “cinematic sculpture,” Feingold’s piece is comprised of three animatronic heads surrounding a pile of black spheres. Each head is programmed with a vocabulary, obsessions, and other quirks that are randomized by software, so when they talk to each other, their dialogue is different every time.
The whole thing is eerily similar to the Master from the original Fallout game. If you’re feeling brave, you can observe one of the piece’s “discussions” by scrolling below.
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