This sculpture was created as part of my residency at the Centre For Outer Space Studies.

I collected soil during the Lunga 6 Mission and later used it to propagate jackfruit seeds. Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is an extremely efficient fruit crop, as a single jack tree can produce hundreds of 20+kg fruits a year. Therefore, I speculatively propose that jackfruit could become a suitable crop for terraforming off-Earth environments.

I placed a cow vertebrae (collected during the mission) on the top of the sculpture, a resin jackfruit at the sculpture’s abdomen, and the jackfruit seedlings at the sculpture’s feet. Behind the seedlings I installed a resin panel which encases lichen (resembling capillaries), also from Lunga.