Parasite avoidance is also a likely reason why the carcasses of herbivores are rapidly
scavenged by other animals, whereas dead carnivores are not and why the latter end up providing more nutrients for invertebrates and vegetation.
Aitken's work draws on many
other artists — text and image paintings
by Ed Ruscha; video ruminations on
animal intelligence
by Diana Thater (Aitken's fellow student at Art Center College in the late 1980s); Bruce Nauman's insistent demand to audiences to «Please Pay Attention,» repeated in an Aitken light - box; Bill Viola's technical video - theatrics; Jack Pierson's faded wall texts composed from
scavenged commercial signage; the mirrored sculptures of Robert Smithson, avatar of entropy; Yayoi Kusama's infinity chambers, and more.