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United Visual Artists, Growing plants

United Visual Artists (along with nine artists including Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread and Mark Fairington) were shortlisted to create an artwork for the ceiling of the Natural History Museum, as part of the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. UVA’s proposal demonstrates Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection in action. A computer simulation of evolution covers the ceiling with an intricate forest of abstract “plants”, which are manufactured using rapid-prototyping technology, then fixed to the ceiling. In the center of the ceiling, a single light mimics the sun, towards which the complex ecosystem grows. source: United Visual Artists