HABITAT

Entropy_Habitat(2018) is a collaborative work with artist Lisa Tolcher that incorporates Ferracin’s multisensory sculptural strategy within a context of an intimate encounter with a noxious vine called Cardiospermum grandiflorum (balloon vine).

This staged habitat spurs environmental awareness by showing the noxious weed overtaking native Casuarina trees and alluding to the chemical disruption of soil and waters with the presence of collaborative artist Tolcher’s rusted mild metals.

Ferracin’s environmental intervention involved collecting and separating Cardiospermum seeds, stems and seed pods which she filmed during the four seasons and then installed collating the video footage within the gallery.