Practice makes perfect. What began as 3D doodles to keep in practice have now become a regular artmaking activity. Originally these forms were made during meetings, quiet times in the classes I teach, or in the odd half hour of free time after preparing for the next day’s classes.
These organic, often radially symmetrical, objects now imagine potential forms for micro-organic life in the Earth’s quickly warming oceans. They imagine an adaptive failure in our current mix of plankton, a broad swath of life that includes flora and fauna and provides a startling percentage of our oxygen, and the need for humanity to engineer a replacement. As with much of the discourse around GMO’s, this imagined solution to our largest of problems could cause an unknown number of problems themselves.