The Keeling (2021) MFA Thesis Exhibition

Contemporary Arts Center, University of California, Irvine

keel (v): to fall over, collapse, or capsize

Keeling Curve (n): a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego (keelingcurve.ucsd.edu)

The Keeling (2021) is an amalgamation of aloe corpses with steel prosthetics, speculative organisms, and contemporary fossils. The works in the exhibition speculate on pre-PTSD of the Sixth Great Extinction and the artifacts we may leave in our wake as a ruinous race.

This work received the Featured Art Prize in the 2021 Future Art Awards: Ecosystem X from Mozaik Philanthropy.