Glass-fired seeds burn, blister and pop, creating microscopic abstract forms of ash residue.
Our survival depends on these seeds.
Doomsday Vault comprises grain seed samples from the 2022 seed deposit made from the Australian Grains Genebank, Horsham, Victoria, Australia to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic circle near the North Pole, a work that developed from my Spitsbergen Artist Center Residency in 2022.
The seeds are frozen in the seed vault at –18 degrees as a food reserve in case of fire, flood or famine. The seed vault is built 130 metres deep into the Svalbard mountainside to retain sub zero temperatures from the High Arctic natural weather systems.
Due to global temperature rises at the Poles, permafrost around the seed vault is melting, threatening global food security and human survival.
Medium: Glass, seeds, 2024
Size: 45cm x 55cm x .5cm
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