four-Shaft Cylindircal loom, 2023. eighty-eight stones drilled by boring clams, used as weights for my loom which is an unusual hybrid of ancient and modern weaving mechanization.
Miscible Interactions, 2021. Plastic Buoy and float Susanna bucht and Maru Garcia
Nereocystis, 2020. The woven pattern depicts data of quanity and types of trash collected on the beaches of the Channel Islands by scientists. i.e. green symbolizes derelict fishing gear, black symbolizes single use plastics.
symbiosis, 2019.
wracked, 2021. Woven with bull Kelp Nereocystis Luetkeana
Spirulina, 2022. Weaving by Sanna Bucht-akmakdjian. Culture by maru garcia
Barren, 2022. Data Visualizations of the heat shock protein in giant kelp. first buoy; california. second buoy; peru.
Nannochloropsis , 2023. Earth Edition, call arts Exhibition. a type of single celled algae that grows in fresh water and salt water.
Barren, 2022. Detail of Sunflower seastar (an important predator of the kelp forests) milled out of low density polyethylene found on Santa Cruz island.
Barren, 2023. video from Port Orford Oregon (Red Fish Rocks) shot by Patrick webster.
Split Cyst, 2019. Aged polyurethane marine debris buoy found on Santa Rosa island, origin Norway.
Barren, 2022. Detail of five sea stars milled from beach plastics. Each star is sound-activating by touch.
Anthropocene Kelp forest, 2018. Detail of ‘holdfast’ made with the mold of scientists who cleaned the beach of marine debris
Anthropocene Kelp Forest, 2019. detail of holdfast grabbing hold of a rock
Split cyst, 2019. The broken plaster hands of Michaella miller, project lead on the Noaa marine debris grant program on Santa Rosa & Cruz Island 2017-2019
(re)tracing Routes, 2019. video documentation of performance in venice, italy.
Ears of the forest, 2021. bull kelp with speakers that play the hydrophonic sounds collected by soundscape ecologist Ben Gottesman in the Channel Islands National park. the speakers compare the sounds between Marine Protected areas (mPAs) and non MPAs.
Intertidal Plastics I, 2016.
Barren, 2022. Pamphlet that narrates misbalance in the kelp forests and research into the preservation of the marine ecosystem.
Springing Bull Kelp, 2021.
Intertidal Plastics II, 2016.
UCLA Law + Biology, Public Opinion survey, 2023.
Anthropocene kelp forest, 2020. arte Forastero exhibition, Ventura County Museum, 2020.
Cooking, 2019.
UCLA Law + Biology, Public Opinion survey, 2023.
Systemmare, 2019.
Colony , 2018.
Anthropocene Kelp Forest, 2018.
Adriatic Sea, 2017.
Agean Sea, 2017.
Macrocystis pyrifera, 2020. Giant kelp and turkish towel seaweeds bio-sculpture.
Colony, 2018. detail of Ceramic tiles with impressions of diverse red and green algae.
Colony, 2018. Ceramic ‘bryzoan’ tiles featured in a river at Ars Electronica 2020 at the Mildred E Mathias Botanical Garden, UCLA.
Intertidal Plastics, III 2016.
Barren, 2022. three hundred pounds of purple sea urchin shells displayed with the Anthropocene Kelp Forest at AltaSea in the port of Los angeles, 2022.
Colony, 2018. Ceramic tiles woven onto tapestry of marine debris rope.
Islands without land, 2023.
Islands without land, 2023.
Islands without land, 2023.
emma Akmakdjian 