Bart Hess
A Hunt for Hightech is one of the first collection by Bart Hess in which he designed and created a range of 'fake fur'. It touches on elements of fetishism, human instinct and new animal archetypes. He created them based on a fantasy world of his own design rather than attempting to mimic the real animal kingdoms. He imagined fantasy animals; animals that could be genetically manipulated, part robot, part organic, how they would move in their environment and what they felt like to touch.
This is the surface of the human tongue, under a coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). The spiky cones are backward facing projections called filiform papillae, which sense pressure. The filiform papillae don’t contain taste buds but are the most numerous of the papillae, covering most of the dorsum (upper surface). The papillae have a scaly appearance because they are constantly shedding their top layer of skin.
