flowers of the anthropocene project 📍 blacks run, harrisonburg, vA

Blacks Run Stream is an eight-mile, heavily polluted waterway running through the city of Harrisonburg, Virginia. These flower formations are occurring through currents of water carrying bits of detritus. Taking cues from botanical renderings of generations past, I am clip the “flowers” and taking them back to my studio to photograph. They are given a name and have corresponding name cards. They carry qualities of beauty and abject, and are a direct artifact of human’s influence on natural systems.  

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Polypa botanima

Polyflous botanim

Globas nyla

Polymos botai.

Polymos unisca

Polymos prandium

Polyflos filum

Polyflos caninia

Polymos convencia

Polya aqual

Polyflous Pholentina

Polyflous nectitis

Polyflos serratus

Polyflos rete

Polyflous neopa

Polypoa ripal

Polypro cauta

 

Polyra salix

Polyserratus compositis

Polyflos involucris

Polyflos suspendisse

 

Polypo fistua

 

Polyserratus præparaverit

Polyherba paleas

Polyflos falsus

Polyflos lapides sacculi

Polyflos tabaci

Polymas bota

Polypaleas compositis

Polylapides sacculi

Polyflos pittacium

Polyflos operimentum

Polyflos fascis

Polya botanim

Polyflos eros

Poly sarcina

Polyflos minus

Polypaleas originem

Polyflos condimentum

& taking a closer look 👇

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