When talking about his flying machine, Carsten Holler described himself as an “Orthopaedist” making artificial limbs for parts of your body that you didn’t know you lost. Mia Kalnitskaya & Micha Maslennikov took on a similar role with their 2003-2005 project Frog Can Fly making limbs for desires we didn’t know frogs had.

“The jump of the frog symbolizes thirst of flying. As genetic magic dream, about a far time, when frogs were Angels.”

The fact that the frogs do not look in anyway “angelic” about their current situation makes me giggle, however I appreciate the insight. The idea of an organism brought so far out of its habitat thanks to technological intervention makes me wonder what we must look like to outsiders when hang gliding.