post-diatom

Through my series post-diatom, I explore intimacy with diatoms by involving real and imagined diatoms through digital platforms like blogs, social media, and FaceTime. I’m interested in how these platforms meet us back in the physical realm though everyday objects. My found materials exist between a functional, hygienic state but also give reference to moments of intimacy (or lack thereof). Through a physical and digital reconstruction of diatoms, I am displacing diatoms from their “natural” context within lakes, oceans, and rivers and instead positioning them within a digital, postnatural. scene Through this process, an evolving collaboration with diatoms, technology, myself, and participants unfolds, and this postnatural landscape shifts in form as this relationship continues to unfold.