HERE: Revisiting environmental and animal sciences by rethinking the "swampscape" through the social practice and process of art-making, science research and fieldwork.

Rethinking...

Revisiting...

Reconstructing...

Thanks to LAGCC Student Ambassador's STEM program at CUNY for the invitation to present and introduce my ideas and experience to new students and the Department Chair Faculty in physical sciences + mathematics, biological + environmental science.

I'm looking forward to continuing my studies alongside this community in Long Island City!

29 Feb. 2024

August 2023.

I'm thrilled to be a participant with a Position on Retreat AIR on Vancouver Island next month!

...Looking to the shell-builders and storytellers for clues.

July 27, 2023: The island was once a lagoon-like environment - salt + fresh water close to the shore - that somehow became closed off from the open ocean, trenches formed present day Lake Cowichan. Amphibious whales either died or performed a conscious mass beaching - intentionally moving to land - when the lagoon dried up, something sealed them off from the sea and fresh water flowed in the trench forming the lake. New hybrid segmented creatures took shape and started to thrive on the whale bone yard.

"Fossil Matrix"

(through the chain of craters)

charcoal on paper rolls

2023 ->

day/night/this room🪨🌿💡#backlit #refraction #reflection #thegreen #reticulite #lavafoam #basaltic #caldera #hāpuu #volcano #compound-eye #selfie (at Kilauea Volcano) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoNWT1-pd_-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Re-imagining and then building an entire marshland-swamp, piece by piece, in France after my amazing residency in the Everglades living among the raptors and reptiles was pretty f*cking insane! And, I’d do it all over again... 

Knots, Nerves, Orbs

Finito!

“...Room in a Room...” 2022

54 x 54″

oil and charcoal on canvas

(+ process pics and failures)

NOTE TO SELF: always look to the shell-builders for clues...

Crash course complete...The Biodiversity of Algae 💯 @uofcalifornia-rpg-blog

... micro/macro algae, diatoms, dark reactors, bio-manufacturers and metabolic air bladders, etc. NICE! 👁

~ 3.5 billion years of evolution ~

@svanyc in my spring course Living Planet, we'll discuss #chlorophyll + algae + plants connected to #cosmos  the past/future #purpleearth and the possible creatures that live there.

Grazie Giovanni Sanzone! I'm especially happy he wrote about three paintings from "Mutatis Mutandis & The Gadfly" (a large group of works from the swamp - not yet seen).

"...they are the beings with whom we have the least in common but who most of all participate and come into contact with our life." ~ GS

endemics & extremophiles - salt of the earth ❤️ @deathvalleynps • Nevada side-blotched lizard • Pupfish in fossil waters (speckled dace?, Salt Creek, Amargosa, Devil’s Hole) 🐟 •Creosote - for the pollinators •Phainopepla •Screwbean mesquite pod •Cholla cactus •Evaporites for the Badwater snail 🐌 •Microbes + host rock (Endoliths, Halophiles, Xerophiles) 👾⏳ • (Seen): desert holly, kangaroo rat, sidewinder traces, chuckwalla tail, thrashers, golden eagle… #extremophiles #endemicspecies #fossilwaters #saltoftheearth #sideblotchedlizard #pupfish #creosote #screwbeanmesquite #evaporites #chollacactus #badwatersnail #microbes 👾 🧂💦🌎 (at Death Valley National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca2rXTJlGc2/?utm_medium=tumblr

Preparing for my trip to Death Valley, the Warped Mountains and the International Dark Sky Festival!

I’ve been waiting for this for a very, very long time...

February 23 - March 3, 2022

HNY from the studio! Here’s to keeping the doors open, terrariums, emerging seedlings, peace and truths… #2022 🌱 • • • #phosphorescence #scorpion #dungbeetle #moonman #pyroclastic #swampscape #seedlings #barbirusapig #painting #truths #terrarium #covarium #reset #mutatismutandis @joibittlestudio 🌱🪲🦂🐗🌋 🛶🌐❤️‍🩹 (at Queens, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYJubtJrkmh/?utm_medium=tumblr

https://www.artbytranslation.org/exhibitions/202105-time-capsule-2045/introduction

Exhibition at Palais de Beaux-arts, Paris

May 7 - May 23, 2021

Time Capsule 2045 is a traveling exhibition which begins at the Beaux-arts de Paris within the framework of the Act 2 Exhibition Theater. Pending new government instructions, the exhibition is only accessible to professionals by appointment. compliance with sanitary conditions.

Curatorial team: Maud Jacquin, Sébastien Pluot with Laurent Fiévet, Silvia Guerra, Julien Sirjacq.

A proposal from Art by Translation (ENSAPC-ESAD TALM) and Lab'Bel, artistic laboratory of the Bel group, in partnership with the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris-Saclay and the Studio Adrien Gardère.

Three days of performances on Friday May 7, 14 and 21. From 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on May 7 and 14; from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on May 21 (detailed program to come). These performances will be broadcast live on the Beaux-Arts de Paris Facebook page and then accessible from the Art by Translation website.

The sound creations imagining the world in 2045 will be accessible for the duration of the exhibition.��

https://www.beauxartsparis.fr/en/exposition-simple/le-theatre-des-expositions-en-version

Time Capsule sealed. 1.30.2021.

“Seen/UnSeen”

until soon ?! >>> 2045

The first exhibitions to be held at Palais des Beaux Arts de Paris, the Emily Harvey Foundation NYC and Festival Agir pour le Vivant, Arles France in coordination with Lab Bel and Art By Translation (March 2021).

A nice mention in the NYT about the film "Thoughts on Life" by Will Cavendish.

Conway's LIFE and our dinosaur worlds may help bring perspective during these uncertain times.