translating the capability of API testing of fish tank water to rain water of urban spaces. infiltrating city scapes to infer autographic visualisations

if i can’t alter the biology of organism, I can imagine how they could be changed. its perhaps a bit naive to envision ecological indicators as tuning themselves to the human species in simplest ways (like changing colour or smell to meet the desires of a passer by) but then again, its bit like Olafur Eliasson in his Green River series: he dyed parts of rivers with uranine, a non-toxic water-soluble dye used to test ocean currents, to make passers-by aware of their surroundings. 

Making humans aware of moss. If moss is usually only apparent when air quality is good (and therefore going fairly unnoticed) what if a type of moss appeared in areas of high toxicity and in synthetic colour? pink seems one of the least natural colours ever (funny how green is often associated with toxicity and poison…)

(all imaged photographed in Somerset, ancient woodlands)

pink (or rather red…) is the colour cabbage die goes in acid conditions. perhaps the colour pink alludes to a toxic environment. an intervention could be applying fake pink moss to areas in london of the worst pollution

(heat map of most polluted areas)

I’m interested in earrings and ornamentation because the is something so personal about bodily hanging objects. lodged, inserted, draped, squeezed. they exist within and near to our sensors… what if the noes ring reacted to a certain condition in the air and you could detect this throughputs cent. how can Make earrings make sound?

(made before the winter break – gelatine bio plastics with various bacteria cultures)

developments using Ph natural indicator

I’ve been thinking about textiles made from agar. It basically a culture medium of a petri dish. there a danger to mould like three a purity to flowers. although it makes sense – some mould can kill you – it could be a human-nonhuman barrier to question.

embedding raw flowers.. hoping to culture various bacterias…

embedding pressed flowers…

bacteria and mould and the un tameable invisible beings, part of the city scape.

sensing cities through their mould.

using pappy white bread as has a petri dish vibe to it. (rubbed the city floor of Coleford/Mells/Bath, radstock

awaiting cultures

how else can I experience the invisible spores – in a very basic definition of the human senses (still need to look up the limitations of this; all the other ways we sense our environments ie: body temperature…)

touch…

thought I’d do more spore prints but on glass so that I could ‘harvest’ the particles and translate them into state where I can handle it… play dough springs to mind.

from this I made play dough (I’d say 3% spore, mostly flour, baking power and water…).

spores reborn:

i don’t know why they have a glow below them? It’s as if they’ve been inverted.. or the spores are being re-released through the play dough..

Wanted to explore the different voices of the mushroom; including the assemblage of it with other beings, ie; me. what does the smell of truffles that a wild bore burrow for sound like?