Underfoot, soil squirms with microscopic life, biota wriggling between plant roots, mycorrhizal fungi branching and knitting delicate networks that interact with trees and plants at the cellular level in both forests and meadows. This "unregarded" part of the ecosystem is active with approximately 90% of the planet's flora. Lowly, hidden microorganisms directly impact our food as well as the planet's enormous biosphere. The Incognae installation draws attention to the hidden activity underground and reestablishes a mycorrhizal colony in the park using plants native to the Atlanta Piedmont region.

The artist would like to thank ceramicist Anne Rafferty and Kathryn Gable at the Perimeter College Botanical Garden.


Meshakai Wolf
f.o.r.d.: found on road dead
Installation

f.o.r.d is a documented visual collection of Atlanta's urban wildlife in the age of auto-mobilization and electrification: animals are run over by combustion-human-transport-devices and fried by wires of energized particles. They bear the risk of walking the hire wire rodent interstate or crossing the asphalt river, for which they inevitably pay the ultimate toll, as they become the decomposing aspect of the roadway landscape.

Three years in the capturing, f.o.r.d presents a common city of Atlanta occurrence from a unique and striking vantage. These are not just the streets of the bipedals; they are the rodent cemeteries sans gravesites, sans mourning.

The animal crossing road signs include squirrels, opossums, chipmunks and raccoons.