In my dissertation, I track the techniques and technologies that undergird natural history sites—from biological knowledge that informs how aquarists deal with specific fish specimens to the physical transportation devices used to move plants and animals globally.
This on-going project pairs images that, together, show the space’s immersive effects and the infrastructures that made those views possible. I captured my garden but also the car the plants came in; homemade terraria and the bar cart that the glass rum bottles used to be on. Showing the infrastructure and the effects they make possible, this project mimics the methodological approach of my dissertation which disenchants greenhouses, aquariums, and colonial gardens to better understand their undergirding logics and consequently their ideologies.
