The ethics of Piccinini's art work...

Now that the year has rolled into autumn, we are beginning to get earlier nights and later mornings, as the sun decides to sleep in much more. Having to wake up early is a real hassle, specially if its homework that your waking up to. I am studying Patricia Piccinini's work at the moment. Piccinini's work confronts us with some profound and thoroughly contemporary ethical questions. Like, what are our responsibilities towards life created through other ways than biological reproduction? What of the increasing number of children created through fertility technologies? How can we still meaningfully distinguish between a natural and artificial living being given the extent of technological intervention in producing, maintaining and enhancing life? Etc, etc etc... Her work 'siren mole' is a good example, as well as We are family "The Young Family". That is really disgusting... its like a dog, but covered in human flesh. http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/ - its really interesting. Its not exactly appealing, but it raises a lot of ethical questions in a time where scientists are tampering with cells more than ever.