Computer installation in Eucalyptus woods. La Jolla, California, December 2024.
Project Text:
THIS MONITOR DOESN’T
KNOW LOVE.
CAPITAL SURVIVES
THROUGH
DISMEMBERMENT AND
BUTCHERY.
WHAT DID YOU BURY TO
FEEL ALIVE?
EMPIRE’S FLUIDS SEEP AND
SOUR THE EARTH.
THIS SYSTEM MONETIZES
REST AND RATIONS JOY.
LIBERATION’S PETALS ARE
PLUMED, AND THE ROOTS
ARE BOUNTEOUS.
THE LUST FOR MORE WILL
ALWAYS AND CONTINUE TO
BETRAY US.
NATURE KNOWS ALL
TRUTHS, IN VAST
PRIMALNESS AND VICIOUS
TENDERNESS.
WE ALL HOLD THIS
VIOLENCE TOGETHER.
THE FUTURE WON’T
FORGIVE HESITATION.
YOUR REFLECTION IS
SOFTER IN WATER.
THE LANDFILL DIGESTS
LAST YEAR’S LABOR. A
SALARY BLOATED BURP.
EVEN NOW,
THE EARTH FORGIVES.
LET STILLNESS UNSHAPE IN
YOUR CHEST.
DISEMBOWL PRIVILEGE
AND ITS LUBRICATION OF
ATROCITY.
WAR IS A LUCRATIVE
INDUSTRY.
WHAT WOULD SOLIDARITY
FEEL LIKE IN YOUR HANDS?
BONES DO NOT DECAY; THEY
ROOT.
YOU CAN’T BUY YOUR WAY
OUT OF WHAT’S COMING.
TO HOARD IS TO ROT.
WASTE MULTIPLIES
INFINITELY, IN A PUTRID
GLUTTONOUS EXPANSE.
RENT FATTENS EMPIRE'S
BELLY.
THE ECONOMY’S PULSE IS A
DEATH RATTLE.
THIS SCREEN CANNOT FEEL
MOSS.
WHY DOES CAPITALISM
DEMAND SO MUCH AND
GIVE SO LITTLE?
NATURE IS A GENEROUS
COLLABORATOR, NOT A
PRIVATIZED COMMODITY.
SEE YOURSELF, IN
ASTONISHMENT, BEYOND
THE SYNTHETIC OR DIGITAL
WORLD.
CARNIVOROUS BLINDNESS.
THE RICH WON’T SAVE YOU.
WHAT THE WORKER LOSES,
THE EARTH LOSES TOO.
WE TOIL TOGETHER.
SCARCITY IS
MANUFACTURED FOR
CONTROL.
YOUR COMFORT IS BUILT ON
AN ANNIHILATION OF
EVERYTHING LIVING OR
HAVING ONCE LIVED.
THE CHASMS, CLEAVES, AND
CAVITIES, GROW GREEN
AGAIN.
THE LAND REMEMBERS
EVERY THEFT.
WE ARE ALL BUILDERS OF
THE MACHINE WE FEAR.
MOONLIGHT ON SKIN
AWAKES THIS LURCH
SLUMBER.
DEAD TECHNOLOGIES
HAUNT THE LIVING,
FESTERING OBJECT
ZOMBIES.
REWILD YOUR DESIRES.
HOW LONG CAN YOU
STOMACH THIS?
EVERYTHING IS BUILT FROM
THE INNARDS OF
THE PLANET.
THE SYSTEM EATS, AND WE
ARE ITS MARROW.
STILL SOIL ACHES,
MOTHERLY, FOR YOUR
RETURN.
THIS SCREEN HOARDS YOUR
TENDERNESS.
UNGOVERNABILITY.
WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO
MAKE THIS RIGHT?
THOSE INTERACTIONS ONLY
SEE YOU AS DATA.
FEEL THE SEA’S TONGUE.
SOFT, FLESHY FRUIT IS
SWEETER WHEN SHARED.
WHY DOES PROFIT ALWAYS
DEMAND SOMEONE ELSE’S
PAIN?
CAPITAL BUILDS NOTHING
IT DOESN’T PLAN TO RUIN,
DECIMATE, OR DISSECT.
FROM THIS FILTH, OUR
FILTH — NEW GROWTH
RIPENS READY.
UNDERNEATH OR IN DEEP,
SOMETHING REMEMBERS
THRIVING.
BELIEVE THAT GLOBAL
RADICAL CARE IS POSSIBLE.
REST STARVES
CAPITALISM’S VORACIOUS
HUNGER.
HOW CAN WE LIVE
KNOWING THIS COST?
PROFIT DEMANDS MORE
BODIES.
CONSUMPTION THRIVES ON
INVISIBLE BRUTALITY.
BODIES REMEMBER PRE-
CAPITALIST INTIMACIES.
REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISM
IS A PERENNIAL SEED.
MIRACLES FIND THE
CRACKS, ALWAYS.
WE WILL NOT INNOVATE
OUR WAY TO FREEDOM.
CAPITALISM NEGLECTS THE
VULNERABLE.
CROSS-POLLINATE
MOVEMENTS.
SEETHE WITH LOVE AND
UNBECOME WITH GRACE.
WHY ARE WE TAUGHT
DISPOSABILITY WITH SUCH
ACCEPTANCE?
THE COST OF PROGRESS IS
ALWAYS PAID IN FLESH,
SPINES, AND SENTIENCE.
TECHNOLOGY RAVISHES,
THEN ABANDONS.
THE CAPITALOCENE
LITTERS ITSELF WITH THE
BODIES OF WORKERS AND
THE SCRAPS OF
ECOSYSTEMS.
PARASITES NEST IN
CAPITALIST SPLENDOR,
THEIR GROTESQUE
HEAVENS.
THIS SCREEN DEVOURS LIFE.
UNLEARN OBEDIENCE TO
PROFIT’S MAW.
COOPERATIONS CONSUME
WHAT’S SACRED.
CAPITALISM AUTOMATES
ITS OWN VIOLENCE.
WHAT DO YOU OWE THE
FUTURE?
CAPITALISM NEGLECTS THE
VULNERABLE.
ACCUMULATION DENIES
WHAT IT PROMISES, A
WEAPON TURNED INWARD.
FORESTS SWALLOW AND
DIGEST YOU ANEW.
WHAT IS HOARDED IS
ALWAYS STOLEN.
DEGROWTH IS NOT A
COLLAPSE—IT’S A RETURN.
RECALCITRANCE.
DO YOU FEEL THE TUG?
TECHNOLOGY HIDES
VIOLENCE ELEGANTLY.
ROUSE URGENCY INTO FULL-
THROATED ACTION.
EXCESSIVE CONSUMPTION
ANESTHETIZES
REVOLUTIONARY
INSTINCTS.
WE ARE ALL ACCOMPLICES
IN THIS ENDLESS
EXTRACTION.
WEALTH BLOOMS WHERE
HUMANITY AND MORALITY
WILT.
SCARCITY IS
MANUFACTURED FOR
CONTROL.
POWER DEMANDS
PERPETUAL PAIN, A
BLOODPRICE.
THE UNSEEN COST
OUTPACES LIFE, RESOURCE,
AND POSSIBILITY.
WHAT NAME DO YOU GIVE
THIS GREAT THEFT?
YOU MIGHT BE EATEN LAST,
BUT YOU WILL BE EATEN.
NO BILLIONAIRE'S PITY
WILL FREE US.
DEEM THE PRESENT
INSUFFICIENT.
OUR CONVENIENCE EATS
THE PLANET.
TECHNOLOGY WON’T
MOURN YOU WHEN YOU DIE.
NEITHER WILL YOUR BOSS.
THE OPEN SEA WILL CRADLE
YOU WHEN THE SYSTEMS
FAIL.
WHAT YOU REFUSE TO SEE
WILL FIND YOU.
LET LIFE RETURN IN
MESS AND MAGNIFICENCE.
STOLEN FUTURES FERMENT
AMIDST SAVAGE EXCESS.
CAPITALISM’S APPETITE IS
INFINITE, BUT ITS BODY IS
WEAK.
A BETTER TOMORROW
DEMANDS RECKONING.
ABUNDANCE ARRIVES BARE,
WET, AND UNYIELDINGLY
FERAL.
CHANGE IS PATIENT;
EMPIRES BLEED IN SLOW
GASHES.
WE SHARE THESE BLOOD-
SPOILED MEMORIES.
HOPEFULLY POWER TASTES
STALE AND BITTER.
THESE ARE HUMANITY
SPANNING BETRAYALS.
PLASTIC CANNOT SWATHE
THE BLOODLETTING.
REMEMBER AUDACITY AND
HUMANESS AS A TACTIC.
EVEN IN TECHNOLOGICAL
ENTROPY, THERE’S A
HUMAN PULSE.
FISSURES INVITE LIGHT.
THE HEMORRHAGE SLOWS
WHEN WE HOLD ONE
ANOTHER.
OUR WORLD IS A BRILLIANT
BLOOMING WOUND.