Coffee table (2022), collaboration with Isaiah Acosta

Moss, bioplastics, clay, wood, light fixture, beach rocks, driftwood, plexiglass

Isaiah Acosta and I collaborated for a second time (after our video project, Forgiveness) to make a living coffee table. This coffee table is a piece looking at care and reciprocation. It can be utilized as a household piece, but it also requires reciprocation of care through watering.

This piece was also a way of diving into bioplastics, which we made through utilizing Tiare Ribeaux’s Bioplastic Cookbook for Ritual Healing from Petrochemical Landscapes. When the light and plexiglass are removed, this coffee table is completely biodegradable.