This installation, completed while in residence at EMPAC, functioned as a meditative space to consider the contradictions of the Anthropocene and the purity politics underlying acts of consumption. Features a local citizen science microplastics project. 

Perfume and sensory installation representing volatile organic chemical (VOC) phenomena releated to drought and rising average temperatures.

An experimental scent blending the smell of petrichor (dirt after rain), preserved oyster and reishii mushrooms, and fungal decay.
Filed under: Olfactory, Fungi, Sensory

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.  

This olfactory installation entangles the various anthro-ecological factors related to commercial extinction of the Gros Michel banana.


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