{"id":12157,"date":"2018-07-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/chronicles-of-a-moss-woman\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T13:00:55","slug":"chronicles-of-a-moss-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/chronicles-of-a-moss-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Photosynthetic Transgenesis: Chronicles of a Moss Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,505,463],"project_type":[725,731],"class_list":["post-12157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2018","project-refiguring-the-feminist-future","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue-extended\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue Extended';\">Bryn Owain travels to a moss-covered volcanic island to potentially heal her painful skeletal disorder. Bryn arrives to find a beautiful landscape that is both charmed and handicapped by it\u2019s natural resources.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGeothermic energy manufacturing now exports its product. Because of this, the energy has become too expensive for its own people and the landscape is being over-harvested.\r\n\r\nHowever the same scientists treating Bryn, have already treated the local mosses and brought their numbers back. For their first human patient, the hope is that synthesized human bone and moss tissue will the thrive in the fractures of her bones.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019re not certain about the efficacy of the procedure. What is certain is that Bryn is refiguring her own future by recovering through a photosynthetic transgenesis.\r\n\r\nIn this series, she seeks the status of Campylopus Osteoflexus, the synthesized moss strain thriving near the heat of her internal organs.\r\n<h3><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue-extended\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue Extended';\">Journey to Ehfyega<\/span><\/h3>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[23570],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>My casts are thinning<\/em>\r\n<em>and auto-oxygen levels increasing<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>So I go high on an asphalt lane<\/em>\r\n<em>split down the center<\/em>\r\n<em>of the ashen fields of Ehfyega.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>To the east, the kindred, mutant moss<\/em>\r\n<em>Campylopus Osteoflexus, thrives<\/em>\r\n<em>In the fields of the volcano\u2019s past violence.<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[23562],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>The moss, Campylopus Introflexus, <\/em>\r\n<em>was synthesized to become Campylopus Osteoflexus.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>This strain was selected for my internal implant<\/em>\r\n<em>because of the moss\u2019s love for an array of environments<\/em>\r\n<em>including sulphuric, geothermic terrain.<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[23564],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>My fractures still recur. <\/em>\r\n<em>But the Osteoflexus was already combatting <\/em>\r\n<em>the small jabs to my esophagus <\/em>\r\n<em>inspired by the car ride.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>My scans also reveal its success<\/em>\r\n<em>in the warmth of my shoulder blades<\/em>\r\n<em>sternum and thoracic vertebrae.<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12097],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>The radiant green <\/em>\r\n<em>is a blinding photonic glare <\/em>\r\n<em>when the moss reflects green light<\/em>\r\n<em>back out my pupils<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>These goggles evenly deflect green light<\/em>\r\n<em>before it presses through the chloroplasts<\/em>\r\n<em>behind my eye sockets.<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[23566],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>Then <\/em>\r\n<em>my hands <\/em>\r\n<em>disappear <\/em>\r\n<em>in sudden vibrations <\/em>\r\n<em>of violent rock <\/em>\r\n<em>Ehfyega pulls me <\/em>\r\n<em>threatens fractures <\/em>\r\n<em>quakes heighten <\/em>\r\n<em>follicles lift<\/em>\r\n<em>nerves hyper-leap <\/em>\r\n<em>at the suck of desiccation.<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>My Geigers didn\u2019t predict this tectonic shift.<\/em>\r\n<em>I\u2019d been tracking my bone biomarkers<\/em>\r\n<em>and the island\u2019s seismic activity<\/em>\r\n<em>to anticipate any potential fractures.<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[23568],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>The yellow and red spongy threads<\/em>\r\n<em>of my partnered moss suffer<\/em>\r\n<em>wilt, without steam from empty boreholes.<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[23572],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<em>I record the location<\/em>\r\n<em>take a sample to inspect<\/em>\r\n<em>borrow some remnants of steam<\/em>\r\n<em>to warm my recent Osteoflexus now at risk.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>I look towards Ehfyega to return me.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<em>\u2014<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<h3><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue-extended\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue Extended';\">Concept Text:<\/span><\/h3>\r\nThe analogy of glacier to bone, magma to marrow, inspires a woman to heal her painful skeletal disorder by traveling to a moss-covered, volcanic island. Scientists there have been synthesizing human bone and moss tissue to encourage new plant growth in an over-industrialized landscape. Could this same synthesis transform new growth in her ailing body as well?\r\n\r\nThis woman is now in a post-procedure, photosynthetic transgenesis. The web residency will be her platform to explore a new, self-defined, non-Anthropocene existence. One that depends less on ambivalent medical institutions and more on treatment plans like hers. This autonomous female body can also produce oxygen internally to reclaim its own healing. However, she\u2019s now intricately connected to an ailing landscape. Her senses are undergoing extreme changes. And her connection to synthetic biology is problematic. But, she believes in reimagining a future of healing for the refigured female body.\r\n\r\nThe residency will see proposed 3D models of bones with allowances for moss growth. Poetry will be posted that reflects her morphing notions of language and time. Photographs and animations will outline the treatment plans she built for herself and her home. Maps, charts, and anatomical drawings will visualize volcanic activity, bone reconfiguration, and moss density, both on the island and within her body. 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