My practice-led research explores the use of simple craft techniques as resistance, a response to Haraway's call for "collaborative and divergent story-making practice" in her Camille Stories – Children of Compost (Haraway, 2016). Residing on a damaged planet while environmental degradation and ecological disasters prevail, this project seeks to inspire curious and open thinking, to build a "dialogical bridge between knowledge systems: between ecological sciences and humanities; between Western and other knowledge systems." (Bird Rose, 2020). Through the agency of my Children of Compost Symbionts, this project seeks to engage the public in the notion of inheriting what Haraway refers to as "the trouble," encouraging them to build alternative futures (Haraway, 2016). The objectives of this project are far from offering antidotes or solutions to the ethical and ecological crises we face, but to facilitate constructive public discourse in order to find hope, care and empathy in the broken world. As Rosi Braidotti says, "despair is not a project; affirmation is." (Braidotti, 2019).

First Generation Symbiont Team, 2020  

small sculptures  

400 x 300 x 190 mm

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Extinction Quit #1, 2021  

embroidered quilt  

480 x 360 x 2 mm

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Extinction Quilt #2, 2021  

embroidered quilt

480 x 360 x 2 mm

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Instructions for Public Spaces…unusual times, 2021  

projection art  

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Finding Children of Compost Installation - Huaniao Island Art Festival, 2021  

symbiont flags installation.

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Poster Totes, 2021  

totes gifting performance

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Posthuman Confluence, 2021  

installation with single channel video  

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