The Last Spike, 2020, Reclaimed contaminated metal, foraged ochres, mugwort, iron ore, and bronze
The Last Spike, Mugwort detail, 2020, Reclaimed contaminated metal, foraged ochres, mugwort, iron ore, and bronze
The Last Spike, Detail, 2020, Reclaimed contaminated metal, foraged ochres, mugwort, iron ore, and bronze
Hannah Hirsekorn is an interspecies social practice artist based in Chicago. Her work disrupts the narrative that humans are the driving force of the ecosystem and demonstrates that humans are only one element in a complex system. She explores more nuanced possibilities for the future of ecology through an intersectional and egalitarian set of values. Her work utilizes inconvenience through collective making and material consciousness as a radical act. Pointing to the possibility of moral bonds as a currency and deconstructing standardized market values of material and labor, her work cherishes knowledge, humility, reuse and empowerment through making.