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Swarm
2024 porcelian slip,
car windows,
metal
Site-specific Installation Taft Gardens Art in Nature Residency Exhibition
Taft Gardens
Ojai, CA
image credit: Jules Branaman
2024 porcelian slip,
car windows,
metal
Site-specific Installation Taft Gardens Art in Nature Residency Exhibition
Taft Gardens
Ojai, CA
image credit: Jules Branaman
Umwelt, coined by biologist Jakob von Uexküll illustrates how every organism perceives the world uniquely, shaped by their distinct sensory faculties.
”… We must first blow a soap bubble around each creature to represent its own world, filled with the perceptions which it alone knows. When we ourselves then step into one of these bubbles, the familiar meadow is transformed. Many of its colorful features disappear, others no longer belong together but appear in new relationships. A new world comes into being.”
The automobile industry has created its own pervasive bubble, reshaping our environment in significant ways. It has contributed to habitat fragmentation, clouded the atmosphere with emissions, and altered our experience of landscapes through speed. The car window acts as a filter, turning the world into a blur of fleeting impressions.
Swarm is an installation that examines this transformed landscape. Suspended hand-drawn pollinator insects on porcelain clay-coated car windows, serve as both screens and reflections. This work explores how human and industrial impacts alter our perception of nature and its vitality. The decline of insects reveals our deep connection to a balanced ecosystem.