A project I have planned coming soon, using petri dishes, was influenced by Sonja Baumel’s work where she lays her body into a large petri dish (acting like the canvas) and lets the bacteria from her body grow (acting like the medium). Her work investigates what the self is, and are the living organisms on our body living on us, or are they apart of us if they are there all the time? My intention for my project is to document two days of my day to day life, where I investigate the spaces I put myself in. To see if the bacteria that is present on my body after interacting with certain spaces, is common in public spaces as well as my personal home space.


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