The Redux series (Fruit Detection 1, Fruit Detection 2, and Pollen Detection) consists of three wall-hung sculptural pieces depicting fruit trees, a fruit tree branch, and an almond blossom. The images are laser etched onto four layers of clear acrylic and lit from below to produce a soft glow. Etched on the front-most layer, are small squares that match the position of every fruit and stamen of the layers behind it.

For this series, my strategy was to create something that was both formally beautiful to view nature through the lens of precision agriculture — i.e. an extractive gaze. In Pollen Detection an almond blossom, the largest consumer of artificial pollination, is sliced into component parts — branch, bloom, filament, and anther. And in Fruit Detection 1, an apple orchard is reduced to “signal” (fruit) and “noise” (everything else).

The Redux series is part of the Uncanny Interventions series which explores the current practice and implications of artificial pollination.