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Buffalo Bayou Collection
Buffalo Bayou Collection
Houston, TX, 2019/21
Flora, 2021, HD video edited for web, courtesy the artist
Collected with the support of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center Conservation Team, the flora collection is similar to the fauna. It includes 3-D printed objects and moving images. The 3-D prints carry sediment from the bayou. Similar to urns, they hold the remains of an ecosystem. Through the scanning software, the moving images become abstracted, plasticized. These digital objects inhabit a virtual space far removed from the original’s habitat.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad456934c3be40350fef80105cc693a2b54ad76f7c36efca47b111ae0324beab/Fall-Foliage-white.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2a8bfb7824a903f988fceb008d5ed8262d4e253dab290f9bb86e455b5d320df/Wild-Flowers-2.jpg)
(top) Wildflowers, 2021, 3-D printed PLA bioplastic with pigmented powder coat, found bayou sediment
(left) Fall Foliage, 2021, 3-D printed PLA bioplastic with pigmented powder coat, found bayou sediment