no ant on the ground - no bird in the sky is cast in algae urethane, a renewable bio based material
"no ant on the ground — no bird in the sky" holds drawings from journalistic portraits of mothers and children in peril; families facing the threat of extinction through ethnic cleansing, deportation, and genocide. Cradled in the sculptural forms of 'Lung Lichen,' these images are printed on gauze— a material invented in Gaza for the binding and healing of wounds.
Lichens are the result of a symbiotic partnership between fungi, algae, and sometimes cyanobacteria. They intertwine themselves, providing each other with the life sustaining components to survive and thrive in impossibly harsh and inhospitable places, where neither could exist alone. Their behavior exemplifies multi-species interdependence, collaboration, reciprocity and decentralization.
Lichens are an ecosystem that defies the boundaries of the individual in recognition of universal connectivity. Lichens teach elegant lessons about forging mutualistic relationships and invite us to remember the radical power of partnership.
These images are of mothers and children in:
GAZA, 2023,2024,2025
ARTSAKH, 2023
ARMENIA, 1915
WARSAW GHETTO, 1941
SUDAN, 2024
BEDOUIN, WEST BANK 2024
KURDS, DERSIM 1937
DRC 2024
ROHINGHA 2017
AUSCHWITZ 1942
PONTIC GREEK 1923
GUATEMALA 1980
RWANDA 1994
HERERO AND NAMA 1904
TRAIL OF TEARS; Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole1830-1850
YAZIDI 2014
LEBANON 2025
BOSNIA 1995
KHMER ROUGE CAMBODIA 1975-1979
AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVERY 1619-1865