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What happens when we think of our bodies as their own ecosystems? Are they open or closed ecosystems? Where do we draw the boundaries? Before we take medication, do we ask ourselves how it will affect our internal organs, our friendly bacteria? What is our medication’s future, beyond our bodies, in the sewage system and out in the waterways we swim in and eventually drink? What are the possible futures of our personal waste?
In this work we can see our urine become a source of overfeeding, mutation, and disease or a fertilizer in a new lifecycle economy. Waste can spur death or growth.
The installation consists of a sewage processing organ. A toilet is attached to a water fountain through a series of tubes, biochemical mechanisms, and 2 functioning aquariums. The first aquarium is attached directly to the toilet, and demonstrates how untreated urine, especially that which contains pharmaceuticals, affects wildlife. The second aquarium is attached to the toilet, but between the two is a series of mechanisms that demonstrate a process through which polluted urine can become safe and even beneficial to other organisms.
What do sentient ecosystems eat and drink?