Lifeless & Helpless (robot)

Mixed media (dural, wires, plastic, ducktape), 156,34 mm

The little metal creature was a present from an adorer of the Friends of the Natural History Cabinet Association. Miss Mary Eleanor Katherine Brooks (well known romantic novel writer, and stalwart suffragette) came up with the idea of building a robot at her first visitation of the Natural History Museum.
She said, she felt like she was walking through a nicely painted photograph, like all the once living animals were frozen to one last never ending picture. However the only thing that allows the dead animals to preserve their livelihood is the vast scientifical apparatus of the museum. Miss Brooks went on, and wished to prove that modern science can not only preserve stillness, but recreate life as such. The one who sees the robot could surely associate of a living creature by its move. And unlike the frozen animals in the museum it is something what would need some help from the humans  in proximity.