Supermrin

Installation view, "Aliens: Colonial Narratives through Plant Migration and Bioart", Curated by Isabella Indolfi, PS122 Gallery, New York, 2024, photograph by Adam Vackar

FIELD [mother], 2022, grass bioplastic, 12” x 12” x 3”. Photograph by Caroline Anderson

FIELD family secrets [Pink and red skirts sway like sailing ships over soft rounding hips. Shopkeepers roll down noisy shutters of closing trade stores, and the yellow fire from lamps attracts a million singing mosquitoes over sweet-smelling stalls. Our arms are caged in white bracelets like knotted driftwood lined with shrieking gulls.] 2024, fallen maple trees, grass bioplastic, indigo, turmeric, 36” x 60” x 96” Photograph by Caroline Anderson.

Installation view, "Rodin Response: FIELD Family Secrets", Cincinnati Art Museum, curated by Dr. Peter Bell. Photography by Rob Deslongchamps. Images courtesy of the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Installation view from my exhibition "Rodin Response: FIELD Family Secrets" a reply to the sculptor Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917) at the Cincinnati Art Museum, co-curated by Dr. Peter Bell. Supermrin, along with her undergraduate students at UC’s School of Art and consulting artist Laura K. Reeder, created nine works which present contemporary sculpture as inheritances—the “family secrets” embedded within the fragmented legacies of colonialism and the early modernism of Rodin’s era. Photography by Rob Deslongchamps. Images courtesy of the Cincinnati Art Museum.

FIELD, maple [At the end of the world, dark thunder rolls to the footsteps of men chasing uninvited scavenging crows, the nostalgic scent of wet dry earth mixes with urine, dung, and sand.] 2023, grass bioplastic, maple trees, 180" x 168" x 6”

FIELD, linden [I am the prism to your shadow. Through my eyes pinks turn to crimson, greys to silver, yellows to gold. As I roam, the myths of your strange lands flow like veins across my open sky.] 2023 grass bioplastic, linden tree, natural pigment 173" x 70"

FIELD tapestry [A house like no other] 2023, bermuda grass bioplastic, 100" x 70" x 6"

FIELD birch [family secrets] 2023, grass bioplastic, birch tree, 60" x 24"

FIELD, birch [Prove it, day said to night. And night succumbed to the heat of day. There were months where she could not speak on her dark grey light. There were months that the sun shone like blazing fire in the dead of night, nightless nights, we experienced. There were nights when we couldn’t dream.] 2022, grass bioplastic, 2 birch trees, 72" x 84" x 3"

FIELD, lilac [We are scarecrows hanging on a line. We are bursting tires that fire through a still, dry air. We are farmers enroute to the fields that direct us through our unpaved trails. We are sizzling overhead cables; we are running milestones. Atop our flyover we are the oversized truck that has crashed into us, a gang of buffalos, and we lie stinking and dead, not buffalo, but corpse. We are sacks of fly ash scattered across this highway, interspersed with our broken, flailing bodies.] 2022, grass bioplastic, 2 lilac trees, turmeric, indigo dye, 48" x 108" x 48"

FIELD, mirror [I saw cattle everywhere in this desert. We were oranges and lemons, the oceans of millions that you touched. We wished you would meet us and greet us and sit by us. We wished you would make us, as yourself, everchanging neon light, and we laughed and hated you for it. We opened our markets, we filled them with the things you might desire, things that we would come to desire ourselves, we filled our pockets with your currency, like pimps we sang and danced.] 2022, grass bioplastic, turmeric, performance remains, 30" x 96" x 96"

FIELD [performance remains] grass bioplastic, orchard bale, cow bones

FIELD [06.22.22], 2022, grass bioplastic, honeysuckle, 72" x 96" x 12"

FIELD [body], 2022, grass bioplastic, cow bone, 72" x 84" x 3"

FIELD [LIN], 2023, grass bioplastic, branches, 72” x 72” x 2”

FIELD [cloak], 2022, grass bioplastic, branch, 72" x 84" x 3"

FIELD [flower], 2021, grass bioplastic, natural dyes, 18” x 12”

FIELD [growth], 2021, grass bioplastic, turmeric, 12”x26”

FIELD [leaf] 2021, grass bioplastic, turmeric, 12”x14”

FIELD [tapestry], 2021, grass bioplastic, honeysuckle branch, natural dyes, 6’ x 2’

FIELD [untitled], 2022, grass bioplastic, branch, turmeric, 38" x 17" x 3"

FIELD [untitled], 2021, grass bioplastic, branch, turmeric, 38" x 17" x 2"

FIELD [untitled], 2022, grass bioplastic, branch, turmeric, 38" x 17" x 2"

FIELD [bone], 2021, grass bioplastic, cow bone, 3" x 4" x 3"

FIELD [moth], 2021, grass bioplastic, 36” x 48” x 20”

FIELD [confetti], 2021, collective artwork with students from Columbia University, 24" x 72"

FIELD, linden [I am the prism to your shadow. Through my eyes pinks turn to crimson, greys to silver, yellows to gold. As I roam, the myths of your strange lands flow like veins across my open sky.] 2023 grass bioplastic, linden tree, natural pigment 173" x 70"