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CAYCE EGAN
Plants Both Dead and Alive, 2023
Ceramics, Skull, Bones, Soil, and Plants
Owned by photographer
A pot with one dead plant, and a few dead plants as well as a squirrel skull and bones. In ways it represents our use of monocropping in that one plant is allowed to live while everything else including both other plants and animals must die while being held in an artificial environment, represented by the ceramic pot.
ANGEL VALDEZ-MACHICADO
Flower Bed, 2023
Pansies, Roses, Tulips, Ferns, Soil, and Fertilizer
Owned by the College of William & Mary
A flower bed located on campus at William & Mary. A subtle example of how globalization has shaped the natural landscape of the Earth. Many of the flowers present, and currently dying, are not native to the Americas. Yet they're selected for propagation due to an idea of beauty set by humans.
NICHOLAS VOTH
Benji, 2023
Elephant ear potted plant, 2022-23
Owned by photographer
An elephant ear in a Target brand plastic pot. A leaf was recently torn off by a still-in-training puppy, and it was added back to the pot to feed the rest of the plant. Benji is a physical manifest of the frontier and commercialization, as well as a representation of planned obsolescence and the harms of a monoculture.
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