Documented by Jaeden Hannus
December 2025
Steel, brass, wood, hand-woven cotton dyed with walnuts, and the seeds of: apple, cantaloupe, avocado, sapote, date, bell pepper, corn, and lemon.
Patriarchal logics shape our understanding of life in its most simple terms: love, land, body, the seed. This multimedia installation is a reflection and response to the seed—as a symbol, a living entity, and something that has been commodified, manipulated, and monopolized by corporations and hegemonic ideologies. Through research, making, and collecting, this work explores the strange interface between biological life and legal control, while also reaching into the more intimate and symbolic dimensions of seeds: desire, fertility, and potential. To break the seed into a system of parts is a process of impossible simplification, one that strips the seed of both its reproductive capacity and the knowledge, culture, and history embedded within it.