Control: Secondary Nature

2015, found objects, phytoremediatory plants, water, plastic tubing.

Control: Secondary Nature, is a microcosm of the constant interventions into the world around us, required to prevent, change, or undo problems caused by our previous interventions. Each floating container houses a plant meant to suck some contaminant from the soil, or filter groundwater in some way, but they’re isolated from each other, and from the Earth itself. The room is difficult to navigate, and will become more and more so with further additions, further attempts to remedy a created problem.