A white and green basketball backboard against a dramatic cloudy sky. Most of the court is grass, one key is a garden and the other is made of concrete pavers.

FACEPLANT

UB • BUFFALO, NY • 2021
Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop

Faceplant is an experiment in cross biome pollination. A human face biome and a soil biome are introduced and resulting bacterial collections are incubated.



Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop
A tiny house on a pole with 3 shelves, each holds a basketball
Narrow-leaf coneflower in a field with a small white backdrop behind them.

Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop
A tiny house on a pole with 3 shelves, each holds a basketball
Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop

Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop
A tiny house on a pole with 3 shelves, each holds a basketball
Narrow-leaf coneflower in a field with a small white backdrop behind them.


Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop
Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop
A tiny house on a pole with 3 shelves, each holds a basketball
rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane face a concrete lane and a basketball hoop.
Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop
A tiny house on a pole with 3 shelves, each holds a basketball
Narrow-leaf coneflower in a field with a small white backdrop behind them.

Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop
A tiny house on a pole with 3 shelves, each holds a basketball
Narrow-leaf coneflower in a field with a small white backdrop behind them.

Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop
A tiny house on a pole with 3 shelves, each holds a basketball
Narrow-leaf coneflower in a field with a small white backdrop behind them.

Two people stare at rows of plants in the shape of a basketball free throw lane with a purple martin house instead of a backboard and hoop

These maps include text from DIY Dirtball, an in progress decade long card game that explores our relationship to soil and deep time by challenging players to make space for 7 deep time travelling companions: a fruit fly, a human, a great basin bristlecone pine, soil, coal, earth and the universe.

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