How can we live together without harming the soil and its micro-organisms?

In this work, I explore the coexistence of humans and non-humans, and the boundaries that make the ecosystem challenging for some forms of life but not for others.

Acid mine drainage, the acidic water flow from metal or coal mines, is a major environmental issue.

Alive in the Soil

We live in the Aerocene 2

Which genes will survive the current Anthropocene devastation of the planet? We reproducing our genes in this polluted atmosphere, what cellular mutations are we unwittingly the victims and executioners? Guman is the only true vital unit that fights without the use of violence for its own survival, it has an intrinsic intelligence that allows it to reproduce itself. They replicates itself leaving a part that can expand in a potentially infinite way. What we would call mutation by meiosis takes place, a division capable of creating a perfect pearly replica, which like the original lives with and in the planet: a solution to the inevitable evolutionary consequential extinction.

  
Inspired by Richard Dawkins "The Selfish Gene" Content by: Clarissa Spoladore

Reproduction 2

**"Touch ID"** is a painting created entirely with fingers and fingerprints, forming a layer of identity infused with future possibilities. It represents a fusion between human multispecies and the Guman, creature the artist is studying inspired by Donna Haraway.

Touch symbolizes responsibility, acceptance, and inclusion, serving as a form of sensory activism.

  
media: Fingerprints-acrylic on canvas size: 50x50cm date: 2021

Touch ID

**"Sympoiesis"** is part of the first series of paintings.

  
These beings are evolved single-celled organisms, whose matter is both organic and mineral. They are composed of the same elements as the compost that forms the planet they inhabit. The atmosphere exists within them, and horizons pass through their membranes: immersion is what sustains their life.

  
Their name is Guman. They represent a laboratory of life, an autopoietic system that makes them nurturing despite not being individualistic or belonging to any gender code. Their vision generates a mental compost that fosters awareness of connections among multispecies. Through this process, they become capable of self-fertilization and live in symbiosis with their fetuses. They propose a system of independent ritual creation.

  
_Media: Acrylic on canvas_

_Size: 70x50cm_

_Date: 2021_

Sympoiesis

**"City In Terrapolis"** is part of the first series of paintings.

  
These beings are evolved single-celled organisms, whose matter is both organic and mineral. They are composed of the same elements as the compost that forms the planet they inhabit. The atmosphere exists within them, and horizons pass through their membranes: immersion is what sustains their life.

  
Their name is Guman. They represent a laboratory of life, an autopoietic system that makes them nurturing despite not being individualistic or belonging to any gender code. Their vision generates a mental compost that fosters awareness of connections among multispecies. Through this process, they become capable of self-fertilization and live in symbiosis with their fetuses. They propose a system of independent ritual creation.

  
_Media: Acrylic on canvas_

_Size: 70x50cm_

_Date: 2021_

City In Terrapolis

"Guman in Terrapolis" is part of the first series of paintings.

  
These beings are evolved single-celled organisms, whose matter is both organic and mineral. They are composed of the same elements as the compost that forms the planet they inhabit. The atmosphere exists within them, and horizons pass through their membranes: immersion is what sustains their life.

  
Their name is Guman. They represent a laboratory of life, an autopoietic system that makes them nurturing despite not being individualistic or belonging to any gender code. Their vision generates a mental compost that fosters awareness of connections among multispecies. Through this process, they become capable of self-fertilization and live in symbiosis with their fetuses. They propose a system of independent ritual creation.

  
_Media: Acrylic on canvas_

_Size: 80x60cm_

_Date: 2021_

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