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Ethylene Spring, 2020

The installation Ethylene Spring embodies climate change anxiety through an interactive installation riffing on the tripod seat of the Oracle of Delphi housed within the Temple of Apollo. From atop this iconic seat, which straddled a fissure in the earth, the fume enshrouded Pythia would deliver her prophecies to desperate visitors. In Ethylene Spring, I ask visitors to take turns ascending the tripod to bathe in the custom scented fog from a machine at its base. While there, they can freely rotate their seat to view the surrounding landscape, all the while hearing a selection of dark prophecies beamed straight to their perch. These weather-related snippets come from various sources including poetry, cinema, news coverage, and pop music. Contrasted with these somewhat inscrutable excerpts, the other elements of the experience will be rather visceral. Between ascending the ladder, inhaling the scented vapors, and hearing the words emerge from all the ambient noise of the surroundings, the visitor should find themselves truly discombobulated.

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