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“As a companion piece for Chemical Life Support, I made Beauty and the Beast, a portrait of a young girl asleep, yet alert, as if under an enchantment. It’s made of polymer wax mixed, not with a medical drug, but with freeze-dried animal blood bought commercially (usually used for fertilizer). She becomes an ark, possessed by all these animals, beauty and the beast in one. This work is about the co-existence of innocence and corruption in the world and about a girl being on the cusp of childhood and adult life.” - Marc Quinn, Recent Sculptures Catalogue, Groninger Museum, 2006