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David Aston
Attest you are human armorial silver salver
Silver plate salver engraved with Attest you are human armorial coat of arms.
2019

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After making the New York commemorative porcelain plates I wanted to make a silver armorial salver to mark the point in human evolution where we have to attest our humanity to machines. For the armorial I used the cover plate from the New York book of attestations as a symbol of our collective humanity.

The two figures representing humanity (Venus) and robots standing either side of the tree of life. The figures and motifs are taken from historical western and Chinese, Han, Ming and Ching dynasty cultures. Together they symbolise a modern day Adam and Eve and mark a point where humanity meets artificial intelligence, past meets the present and future, and globalisation as east converges with west.