Plant Perception

2014, 65' x 12' x 7' | 19.81 x 3.65 x 2.13 m, Post-consumer plastic (PET bottles), tinted polycrylic, aluminum hardware, aircraft cable.

Plant Perception was commissioned by Noble Energy in Houston, TX, with oversight by MKG Art Management. In this piece, I was thinking about how plants grow in the direction that is most beneficial to them, as opposed to growing in self-destructive directions as humans often do. Plant Perception reflects my interest in biomimicry, especially as it pertains to human behavior. Since plastic pollution is a growing global problem, I was meditating on the various structures of growth that occur in nature and how they may help us envision or design solutions to help shift our self-destructive trajectory as a species. Plant Perception was fabricated in a rented warehouse in Pine Island, New York, with help from a small but mighty team. It could not have been accomplished without my artist collaborator and husband, Marshall Coles.

Photographs Courtesy of Nash Baker and Adam Kurtz