installation + guided meditation
✖️ Sagehen Creek Field Station, summer 2019
SOUL OF THE EARTH is a room-scale installation I built as an MFA student in Sierra Nevada University’s super-rad MFA-IA program. Sagehen Creek Field Station’s Fish House, an observational viewing cabin with a sub-surface glass window looking into Sagehen Creek, served as the temporary home for this project.
trash and detritus foraged from my own home ecosystems became the fixtures of an imaginary underground where many-leggednoctilucent life-forms drew visitors into a mycorrhizal-like subsurface ecosystem. a guided meditation in the style of Janet Cardiff’s soundwalks and Marina Zurkow’s Dear Climate project invited visitors into into the half-dark of the imaginal, subconscious realm when they descended the Fish House’s stairs.
this project was my first introduction to waste stream foraging, and was also the time and place where I found my own creative station inside swidden lands on the edges of wildland-urban interfaces. I am grateful to Amy Khoshbin for advising me on this project!
trash and detritus foraged from my own home ecosystems became the fixtures of an imaginary underground where many-leggednoctilucent life-forms drew visitors into a mycorrhizal-like subsurface ecosystem. a guided meditation in the style of Janet Cardiff’s soundwalks and Marina Zurkow’s Dear Climate project invited visitors into into the half-dark of the imaginal, subconscious realm when they descended the Fish House’s stairs.
this project was my first introduction to waste stream foraging, and was also the time and place where I found my own creative station inside swidden lands on the edges of wildland-urban interfaces. I am grateful to Amy Khoshbin for advising me on this project!
