Ambrosia

Lemons and honey, both sour and sweet, are often used as a healing elixir, "Ambrosia," which in Greek myths is associated with immortality. Their soothing aroma permeates the space in a visceral and temporal installation about the exchange between nature and the energy it creates.

A network of copper wires attached to a mound of lemons with paperclips power tiny bulbs and extend to beeswax sculptures that meander on the wall and form a circle on the floor. The acidity of the lemons, through a catalytic reaction with the copper wire immersed in their core, generates electricity, activating low-amperage bulbs.

Throughout the exhibition, the heat from the bulbs melt the beeswax, holding the precarious structures in tact. The copper also accelerates the decomposition of the lemons*, causing the bulbs to die out and the wax sculptures (houses) to gradually collapse.

*Simultaneously a producer of energy and self-destruction, this installation addresses chaos and order, sustenance and waste, community and the environment, immortality and mortality.