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Post-Compost

A Mixed Media Installation

Transparent tanks, compost, artificial fruit (containing expanded polystyrene / styrofoam), Zophobas Artatus (superworm), pestalotiopsis microspora (fungus), compostable packaging material, soil, produce stickers, environmental sensor

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Post-Compost is an expansion of and an inquiry into the process of composting through the juxtaposition of 'real' and 'fake' compost. The 'fake' process is aided by agents found in the environment. The project hopes to bring to mind what may still be in the environment 'post-compost', or what will be leftover after all other 'organic' matter decomposes. It also hopes to complicate the common 'natural / artificial' dichotomy by placing 'all organic' produce stickers on the artificial fruits, perhaps allowing the spectator to realize that even plastics are 'organic' in the sense that they also come from the environment. A nearby sensor measures the lack of decomposition in the 'fake' compost, which may point back to the limits of the measurement device itself within a human temporality. 

Documentation

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Documentation Video COMING SOON

Comparison and juxtaposition of 'real' and 'artificial' compost. 

'nature's little helpers'

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