SPAWN
SPAWN
Originally shown in my exhibition Murky Bodies (2020).
Spawn is a series of twenty-four petri dishes containing ink and acrylic drawings on two shelves. The drawings are of fictional/artificial organisms spawned in the aftermath of catastrophic hurricanes and flooding, the result of climate change and warmer waters. Each organism in the petri dishes is named after a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane from 1955 to 2019. These (human) names have all been retired by the World Meteorological Organization because of the devastation they wrought. Spawn speculates on the entangled ways in which humans and microorganisms co-exist in a world confronting an accelerated warming climate.
Spawn asks us to consider: what if hurricanes, the result of climate change and warmer waters, also left a trail of spawned organisms?