She also made a similar piece later on called A Little Death, which is another time-lapse video but this time of a rabbit decomposing. It explores mortality, and the arguable finality of death. The two videos make an interesting pair as the first one takes a perfect, healthy looking bowl of fruit and seems to take it into a place of degradation and nothingness, while the second piece starts off which an object of death and takes it through a process of coming alive and mobile again through the decomposition process. In A Little Death there is also a piece of fruit in the foreground but it doesn't rot at all, something which Taylor-Wood found disturbing in itself and which could be the result of it being genetically modified.
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