Kuá Hakké Springs
Kuá Hakké Springs, the second piece in the Objecthood series, envisions a future where nature and consumer waste have merged in a transformed, post-global-warming landscape. These sculptural boulder formations, imagined as remnants from the year 2973, explore the fusion of synthetic and organic materials in a world altered by extreme environmental changes. The work challenges viewers to reflect on humanity's impact on nature, as plastics, fabrics, and discarded objects become part of the natural ecosystem.
Kuá Hakké Springs is a speculative exploration of future ecologies shaped by global warming and human excess. Set in the year 2973, this sculptural installation imagines a world where relentless heat waves have caused consumer waste—plastics, fabrics, and everyday items—to fuse with natural elements, creating sedimentary boulders. These hollow, stacked forms became sacred ground for the Wahashm tribe, a community that rejected the extreme consumerism of the City of Apponoastos and embraced sustainability.
The boulders, formed through the disintegration and solidification of waste materials under extreme heat, represent both the physical and symbolic merging of human-made and natural worlds. By 4209, scientists from Apponoastos discovered that a radioactive spill near Kuá Hakké Springs had altered the chemical makeup of these materials, sparking the evolution of new, hybrid species. The once-discarded objects now existed as living, breathing components of an altered ecosystem.
This piece offers a reflection on the long-term consequences of environmental neglect and consumerist culture, blending environmental commentary with speculative fiction. Kuá Hakké Springs asks viewers to consider how our actions today might shape the geological and ecological future, as human waste transforms into part of the landscape itself. The work serves as a visual meditation on the future of our planet, where objects and nature intertwine, resulting in new forms of life in a dystopian but eerily familiar world.
Kuá Hakké Springs
In the year 2973, a massive heat wave took over the North American region of the world, due to global warming. The Kuá Hakké Springs formed at the extreme temperatures from the overabundance of abandoned consumer waste including plastics, fabrics, and everyday items. The calefaction disintegrated the fibers, solidifying it into sedimentation that formed the hollow shapes of the stacked boulders.
This became a sacred ground representing divine femininity for The Wahashm, a tribe that began in the year 2979 after a group of citizens from the City of Apponastos rebelled and escaped the extreme consumerist belief system.
In the year, 4209, scientists of the City of Apponoastos discovered that 40 miles east of the Kuá Hakké Springs State Park, a radioactive spill had occurred in the year 2743. The radioactive spill, produced a development in the chemical make-up of our material goods resulting in a variety of new species, where our objects became a living, breathing mechanism in our newly evolved ecosphere.
Sounds of The Kuá Hakké Springs National Park
The sounds waves formed by the ecosphere of The Kuá Hakké Springs National Park
In collaboration with Arman Allen
Boulder Formations CE 2937
Formed at extreme temperatures from the overabundance of consumer waste including plastics and fabrics. A massive heat wave disintegrated the fibers, solidifying it into sedimentation that formed the hollow shapes of the stacked boulders. The Wahashm, a tribe that escaped from draconian consumerist views of the city of Apponastos, saw these boulders as representation of the capturing of divine femininity.
