A World Forms in Whispers

This sculptural installation is a living ecosystem, forming new ways of listening to the ‘other’. As it Slowly evolves over time, it challenges the colonial construct of 'otherness', reinforced by technology. The sculpture is made from the skeleton of the Sea-Fan, a re-generative coral native to River Andrews’ home country, Antigua. Cast in synthetic compounds, the sculpture re-frames biological and technological exchange, releasing microorganisms which are sustained by sugar and human care. The installation's organic elements — plants, microbes, and displaced species — heal humans, showing that what is perceived as `other` can in fact sustain and nourish life. Entangled relationships between machines, caregivers and organisms support the sculptural installation, revealing how all life forms, and all states of matter share the same fate: one of transformation through symbiosis.