An Ecosystem of Excess

The project addresses a series of ecological problems such as man-made extreme environments, consumer capitalism, plastic pollution and threatened species in the age of the Anthropocene.

[1] The project is an artistic imagination of a post-anthropocene ecosystem where non-human living creatures are evolved to digest plastic while human species goes extinct.

[3][4][5] It points to evolution and how this process is indirectly altered by human intervention in the age of Anthropocene.

[6] The work involves a creative exaggeration of scientific facts, and more generally, a research about "the collaborative potential between art and biological sciences.

"[7] Artist-theorists Zach Blas and Christopher O'Leary describe the work as a design of "synthetic biological systems as a living critique of our society.