Creating "The Last Explorer"

This work is Lauren Gessel's first large scale robotics peice, featuring a 4 feet by 4 feet field and a robotic lizard. The field is filled with trash and set to look like an apocalyptic trash site. The lizard exists within the space and moves its limbs back and forth as its movement, its head constantly searching. The work challenges the idea of life on earth after it becomes uninhabitable by organic forms. The robotic creations of humanity that exist beyond the conditions we could bare. That making it the last explorer of Earth, searching for whatever its code decided it would.