Secretly Planted
(February 2020)
installed CSU Channel Isands Napa Gallery
Video Installation, Sculpture, 2D works
“A tree … has no intention of relating to beauty, of being artistic. The tree … wasn't made for man.” States Anthony Lumsden a California based architect who designed the legendary water reclamation plant in Van Nuys topped with the SuihoEn Japanese Garden- which is so aesthetically pleasing that Star Trek used the site in one of its most famous episodes. The phrase The tree… wasn’t made for Man helps me think through this reality from a post-humanist lens. Moving beyond humanist sensibilities can break down the boundaries between self and other and perhaps, promote a coalescing of spirit and matter. We wake up, we breathe in unfathomable bits of dust particulate, of dirt, dander and pollen; yet we (for the most part) function. Or as Donna Haraway explains: our DNA is stored in only 10 % of our body- the rest is given over to bacteria. How much of “us” is really ours?
Eco Casual 2020 from SB on Vimeo.
