Installation
3 ft x 3 ft x 5 ft
“Corn Is King” is a multimedia installation featuring vinyl tubing, corn kernels, and live plants that discusses the complex dysfunctionality of the American food and agriculture industries, specifically the corn-centric system that has normalized wasteful, unhealthy, and heavily industrial practices. The disorderly tubes represent the inefficiency of direct and indirect lifelines of resources and mechanization that feed America’s industrial complexes. The sci-fi, lab-like visual language of the tubes mirrors the look of new hydroponic sustainability efforts. This aesthetic contrasts the mass-mechanization of corn-based operations, and speculates an alternative microcosm with a focus on sustainability and life. The square lot of corn that the tubes go through references the distinctly geometric and inorganic aerial farm view that characterizes midwestern agriculture.
3 ft x 3 ft x 5 ft
“Corn Is King” is a multimedia installation featuring vinyl tubing, corn kernels, and live plants that discusses the complex dysfunctionality of the American food and agriculture industries, specifically the corn-centric system that has normalized wasteful, unhealthy, and heavily industrial practices. The disorderly tubes represent the inefficiency of direct and indirect lifelines of resources and mechanization that feed America’s industrial complexes. The sci-fi, lab-like visual language of the tubes mirrors the look of new hydroponic sustainability efforts. This aesthetic contrasts the mass-mechanization of corn-based operations, and speculates an alternative microcosm with a focus on sustainability and life. The square lot of corn that the tubes go through references the distinctly geometric and inorganic aerial farm view that characterizes midwestern agriculture.