Poetics of Anthropocene - sourdough bread objects
The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems. The Anthropocence thus includes, but also transcends, the duration of anthropogenic climate change
Sourdough bread with human hair
Sourdough bread
Vernissage - Sørlandsutstillingen 2017, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand, Norway (11.02.17)
http://www.kristiansandkunsthall.no/utstillinger/sorlandsutstillingen-17/
Curatorial composition and presentation of the work at Sørlandsutstillingen
Sourough bread starter. Sourdough is teeming with bugs—some 50 million yeasts and 5 billion lactobacilli bacteria in every teaspoon of starter dough. (http://discovermagazine.com/2003/sep/featscienceof)
"There are millions of kinds of bacteria and fungi on Earth. We have found several thousand species in human belly buttons alone. Yet if you mix flour and water, the community of organisms that colonize the resulting concoction is almost always composed of a small handful of organisms that are able to leaven bread, yielding a sourdough starter. How this happens is one of civilizations great mysteries, a mystery at the heart of the bread making..." Rob Dunn Lab (http://robdunnlab.com/projects/sourdough/)
This is my sourdoug starter which I call April at 200 microscopic magnification