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Tending to Eden
2020-2025

I first visited Biosphere 2 in 2018, twenty-seven years after its earliest experiments in 1991. The Buckminster Fuller-inspired buildings about 30 miles north of Tucson nestle in the western foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The University of Arizona now owns Biosphere 2 where scientists highlight environmental research. I have long admired scientists to the point where their undertakings impact my art. The scale, idiosyncrasy and curiosity of the research at Biosphere 2 is stunning: a marvel (and a huge one at that), a tropical rainforest in a desert, that fixed my attention.