[{"command":"insert","method":"replaceWith","selector":".gallery-artist-gallery-2186","data":"\u003Cdiv class=\u0022gallery-artist-gallery-2186\u0022 id=\u0022field-image-artist-gallery\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg loading=\u0022lazy\u0022 class=\u0022img-fluid\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/nationalartsprogram.org\/sites\/default\/files\/user-gallery-images\/aln_phytoborg2_2015_webPost_0.JPG\u0022 \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","settings":null},{"command":"insert","method":"replaceWith","selector":"#gallery-user-info-2186","data":"\u003Cdiv id=\u0022gallery-user-info-2186\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EWorks on Paper\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/p\u003EThe Phytoborg series is a subseries of the Living Machines.\u00a0 A \u201cPhytoborg\u201d is a vegetative lifeform that fuses machine and living plant-like elements.\u00a0 As with the machine-creatures in the Living Machine series, these vegetative machine-plant creatures embody visions of post-technology life or of exo-biological life.\u00a0 The \u201ctree\u201d in \u201cPhytoborg 2\u201d is largely organic in appearance, but includes cube-like shapes that suggest a machine or non-biological origin. \u00a0The drawing is more overtly surrealistic than other drawings in this series and may serve at the genesis of a series of Surrealistic Evolution images. \u00a0In a sense, \u201cPhytoborg 2\u201d is a departure from other works in the living machine series because there might not be any possible natural history that could account for the landscape and subject, even an alien one.\n\u003C\/div\u003E","settings":null},{"command":"insert","method":"replaceWith","selector":".image-artist-title-2186","data":"\u003Ch3 class=\u0022image-artist-title-2186\u0022\u003EPhytoborg 2: The Living Machines: Surreal Evolution\u003C\/h3\u003E","settings":null}]