Long before farming as we know it – before colonial extraction reshaped the land – indigenous peoples of the Amazon were cultivating Terra Preta: a dense, extraordinarily fertile soil, built through centuries of farming in collaboration with nature. Black gold. A confirmation of sophisticated knowledge systems that Eurocentric history has largely ignored.

The installation takes the shape of lungs, laid out in soil as a reminder of our inherent connection to the land and what it means to be in true synchronicity with it. Emerging from that form is a reference to the Taino vomit stick: an instrument of ritual cleansing used in ceremonies of initiation and transformation. Terra Preta is an invitation to embrace ancestral wisdom, and to find new ways of being in harmony with the earth.