STUDY OF ORIGINS AND FRUITS
by Anna Czoski
Anna Czoski
Anna Czoski inhabits the evolving liminality between art and science, letting ancient symbioses inform her exploration of alternative structures in BioArt that redefine beauty, function, and what it means to co-create with living material.
Anna is based in Seattle where she serves as Co-Founder and Creative + Emerging Technology Director of Future Arts, a nonprofit that furthers her integrative mission to bring both art and technology into dialogue within the community.
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We trace ourselves to various origins: the womb, evolutionary chains, star dust.
This mobile – made of branches, fiber, and kombucha-leather forms – balances our physical and metaphysical origins in a symbiosis of microorganism and macrocosm.
As a mobile, Study of Fruits and Origins evokes the galactic balance of an origin we share in common with all lifeforms. I use Kombucha leather, a material created through the partnership between bacteria and yeast, as the ultimate representation of an enduring structure resulting from repeated symbiotic exchange.
This work asks how we balance an understanding of our material selves with the knowledge of where we came from and what comprises us. The shapes in this piece are at once sensuous, cosmic, and through their delicate balance in the mobile, interdependent..
