The HIlls Grew Organs

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Video installation

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2026

 

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The Hills Grew Organs is an experimental video installation that imagines a speculative Appalachian landscape in which human bodies no longer exist as discrete biological subjects, but instead have merged with fungal networks, animal life, plant systems, and geological processes. In this reconfigured ecosystem, life operates as a distributed, metabolizing field in which boundaries between organism and environment collapse, giving rise to unfamiliar and continually mutating forms.

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The videos adopt the visual language of documentary media—wildlife cameras, field recordings, and degraded archival footage—drawing on grainy VHS textures, compression artifacts, and unstable image processing. This aesthetic positions the viewer within a mode of ecological surveillance, where the camera operates as a failing device attempting to record forms of life that exceed its capacity to document. Rather than offering clarity, the image breaks down: bodies dissolve into terrain, animal movement fragments into glitch and feedback, and seasons decay into broken codec streams.

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Produced through a hybrid process combining drone video, photogrammetry, performance-based documentation, and neural network–driven image synthesis, the work treats these technologies not simply as tools, but as collaborators in generating images that blur distinctions between documentation and technical hallucination. The resulting visual field operates as both evidence and speculation, suggesting a landscape actively reorganizing itself beyond human systems of control, repair, or sustainability.

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These works are conceived as a three-channel video installation presented in a triptych format, with each channel offering a distinct but interconnected vantage point onto an Appalachian posthuman ecosystem. Together, they form a continuous perceptual environment that emphasizes distributed observation, ecological scale, and environmental instability driven by the Anthropocene.