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. 

A 360o panoramic film, with scenes from gravel heaps and industrial sites, was the backdrop to this immersive  “sensorium” and food altar installation considering anthropocene geology. 

This project is a collaboration with sound artist Lisa Schonberg, and encompasses sensory workshops, a publication and short film. It is a gesture of relation towards mushrooms and an attempt to explore fungal modes of co-authorship within creative works.

A Ritual in Search of its Rock
2025 (work in progress)
Short film combining re-enactments of first century polymath Hildegard of Bingen’s medicinal recipes with my father’s home movies of geologic sites and ruins he visited in the 1990s.


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