As cultural practices, science and technology have provided us with a surfeit of alchemical artefacts, uncanny social histories, and environmental imaginaries. My work as an artist has been to sift through the traces of our contemporary scientific folklore and to envision the archives and archaeologies of the present. In this sense I see my work being that of both a collector and an interpreter, writing minor histories while simultaneously speculating on the new futures that these histories conjure.
Much of my recent work has dealt specifically with environmental imagination, or the design and performance of artificial natures. I have focused on the connections between agencies such as the Sun and architecture; mountain ranges and medicine; ecological models and the biosphere; and how these ideas work when they are taken off world into the xenobiology of space capsules.
In my studio, I amass a growing collection indexical of scientific world-making: urban detritus; architectural models and follies; natural specimens; found images and photocopies; libraries; commemorative souvenirs, tourist ephemera, posters, postcards, abstract modernist objects; closed-system experiments; space travel refuse; pet architecture, and everyday domestic ephemera - all on the scale of the personal or vernacular.
On Artificial Ecosystems (2016) SI: Visions, Swiss Institute, New York, NY