Description:
The project’s research involved transplanting invasive plants which were found growing on the campuses of the Claremont Colleges and their affiliated institutions. By restricting the investigation to vegetation classified as alien-invasive species by the California Invasive Species Advisory Council, a determination was made as to which so-called invasive species have infiltrated this site. The execution of this project followed strict scientific methodologies and research strategies and uses the findings to draw broader interdisciplinary cultural inferences to the topic of the immigrant ecology of invasive species. The image depicts their detainment within the highly artificial conditions of their indoor detainment, silhouetted around them is an ultraviolet light structure which looming over them, a metaphor for the inhospitable detention being experience by migrants, specifically specious notions about who has the right to exist in which spaces, the right to survive, and what survival looks like depending on who one is.
Title:
Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory (Detention)
Year:
2015
Media:
Powder coated aluminum lightbox with fluorescent tubes, white plexiglass, orange extension cord, Duratrans inkjet print
Dimensions:
30” x 40” x 5”
