Through the regional abstraction of a lush tropical environment, our collaborative, site-specific installation is meant to reflect dynamic changes occurring in the natural landscape of South Florida. A painting of the Everglades by Magnus Sodamin creates the backdrop for a sensory landscape of colorful concrete fruits, ceramic crystals and leaves which form arrangements atop unfired clay textures of coral reefs, each containing a live tropical plant at its center. Juxtaposing these different materials and their implications, we wanted to create a dialogue about the organic made artificial through man-made landscapes while hinting at the declining state of Florida’s native environment.

Photos by World Red Eye.