An Eco-Art project for a 3 week residency at the Playa Summer Lake site in the Oregon Dessert. By using local materials - the salty clay from the summer lake burnt in a ceramics kiln and charcoal produced from wildfires - I made my own local ”terra preta”.

This type of soil mix was used in the amazonas rain forrest to create an extremely fertile environment for agriculture and is even to this day not fully understood. The basic elements of this ancient technology are however failry universal - burnt clay, activated charcoal and compost.

As a presentation of my work I chose to create packaging for the ”real piece” by working with lino cut print choosing scenes from my work to put on the bags of soil mix. Whoever came to the exhibition was free to bring home some of the work. 

Rescidency at PLAYA - 2019