‘In this series, the focus shifts from the landscape to the laboratory, as a place of change’ – to ‘the monitoring, simulation and direct modification of natural processes’ (Shifting Nature, 2001, p.104). The photographs in An Immortal Double – completed in 1996 just before the announcement of the cloning of ‘Dolly the sheep’ – refer to a range of research being undertaken in New Zealand at the time, including DNA analysis, plant cloning, and testing plant growth in high-CO2 environments.
All images are selenium-, gold-, ferric- or sulphide-toned silver gelatin prints. Dimensions vary.
Wayne Barrar 