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handscreened wallpaper, mdf

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Parking median islands represent cheap oil's influence on an American lifestyle dependent on oil and an attitude towards containing nature. A culture of strip malls, convenience stores, track houses; the influence is pervasive, comfortable, part utopian and part absurd.

Weight of concrete, fragility of grass. Permanence, impermanence, future ruins.

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This project consists in 2 formats: Tour and Herbarium documentation in Gallery

Tour, Grass, Air, Grass Specimens, Paper, Ink
15 Containers (8'x8'x6') placed in 15 sites around Chicago
Herbarium collection of 20 studies. Dimensions variable.

This project is an experiment to visualize air. I've created a tour around the city, suburbs and rural areas of Chicago, comparing the rates of CO2, the growth of grass, and the history of the cityâ??s development.

Grass uses CO2 to grow. CO2 is at a greater concentration in the city than in surrounding rural sites. The grass becomes an instrument to measure the invisible CO2 in the air. Sites explore our (everyday) relationship to environment, change, and air.

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The Sweetened project attempts to visualize the alteration of commercial agriculture practices on produce. Produce has been engineered for shelf life, rather than taste or nutrition. Small sweet fruit are replaced by larger tasteless fruit.

This project seeks to reverse and expose the practice â?? by showing the alteration of the fruit. I attempt to keep an apple smaller and sweeter by placing a clamp around it as it grows.

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I consider the connections between systems small and large and the dependency of the body to its environment.

The moths have evolved to use the moonâ??s light to navigate. Something that has evolved as a survival skill is complicated when their world is changed. Electric light interferes with their body's ancient knowledge. The moonâ??s light enters the mothâ??s eyes at the same rate allowing the moth to fly straight; the short distance electric light is distorted, its wavelengths entering the eyes at different rates, desynchronizing their wings, and causing a spiral flight. The path that is taken is the Fibonacci spiral, an element of efficiency that is involved in many natural processes, including the organization of galaxies.

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Ant Farm, sand, glitter, ants, 10 days

Instinct, collaboration, environment