Caress or Carcase
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2014
Artist: Zhixin Guo
Dimensions:
65 × 110 mm (6.5 × 11 cm)
Medium: Bronze
Object number: J.2026.25.CC.3
Description'Bronze medal from the British Art Medal Society student project 2014, titled Caress or Carcase. Description from BAMS Student Medal Project XXXI 2014: 'We pet. We get. Do we ever think through the eye of non-human animals, understanding their feelings? Some animals we call pets, others we use for food or furs. The two sides of the medal depict how different human hands might appear to these two categories of animal.'