Ideation for Installation

With the nature of the bioplastic and it qualities which can make it quite skin like - sweating/bleeding/oozing, I have been drawn to making something which brings this into a body of work.

I have been considering pods which are made from root systems and the bioplastic which are made in a way that they “bleed” or ooze, just because it intrigues me. There is also something quite abject in that.

Music is often a creative influence when I am ideating. Watching the movie Saltburn, with its underlying messages about class privilege, corruption, and an unattainable paradise, and the theme song “Murder on the Dancefloor,” got me thinking about my practice and processes.

Essentially with creating root systems, I am growing something with the purpose to harvest and kill it. Exerting my human control over something living / nature, for my own self-centred reasons. Given I am creating materials that are eco-friendly, something more sustainable, etc. But still I am killing somethings to do it. Generally, the way of farming and the like. But if my studio is the artists dancefloor, then there are notes of murder in growing and killing if it were to be looked at in a dark and cynical way. How could I play on this in creating an installation.

If a process may be something of interest to a viewer, what if I made an installation which is like slaughter house/meat processing facility - art studio meets an eco Ed Gein, the Butcher of Plainfield. Hang the growing systems on meat hooks. in different stages of processing - can I incorporate the bioplastic tinted red to make them seem like they are bleeding.

What if there was a table with a system growing and being nurtured amongst the works. A table and a workspace where roots are being made into something - that consumption for the artists self serving purpose albeit “eco-friendly”