[ISEA2012] Artists Statement: Meridel Rubenstein, Catherine Harris, Mark Nelson & Stacey Neff – EDEN AGAIN: A Wastewater Art Garden (2012)

Artists Statement

mixed media

EDEN AGAIN allows people to experience themselves as “living machines” – inseparable parts of the Machine Wilderness – using the waste from their bodies to create an Edenic, ecologically balanced space. The project is a public Water Closet sculpture sustaining reed species, mimicking Iraq marshland vegetation mulched with recycled glass. Subsurface, the plants’ roots filter the effluent.

  • Meridel Rubenstein, Catherine Harris, Mark Nelson & Stacey Neff, New Mexico, USA