A.E.P. - 49351
[ AMALGAMATED EARTH PROGENY NO. 49351 ]
A.E.P. - 49351 is a speculative art object examining electronic waste as a textile material. Formed to mimic the double vortex geometry of the Andromeda galaxy, it looks across time, juxtaposing the temporality of the body and the craft-based methodology that created it with the permanence of the materials that comprise it. Serving both as a remnant of the imaginaries of now obsolete technologies, and as an example of a ‘seed’ for post-planetary colonization, A.E.P. - 49351 explores electronic waste not merely as inefficiency in system design, but as progeny of the Anthropocene. 
Macbook Pro charging cords, headphones, HDMI cords, Dell computer charging cables, speaker wire, AC adapters, extension cords, and tri-color AUX cables. 16’ x 16’.Sourced from the streets, the local community, Craigslist, eBay, and the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s E-Waste Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY. 2019