This installation, strcutured as an alternative archive (or “anarchive”), focuses on the collapse(s) of material categories in the Anthropocene and questions the boundaries between “natural” and “human-made.”

Currently on view as part of the Wellcome Collections’s permanent exhibition “Being Human,” this sculpture represents a DIY method for desalinating water.
Filed under: Object, Food, Climate

A speculative artifact in the form of a gabion, a metal cage filled with a heterogeneous mix of repurposed waste materials and a mini plot of geological agriculture.

Concrete “strata” sculptures with food, waste, and scent.

An installation and speculative natural history archive which involves human bodies in geologic processes, signaling the ways a landscape digests human materials and  might mirror our bodies’ intimacy with the geologic through metabolism.  


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