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AL is a New York–based engineer, creative technologist, and artist working at the intersection of ecology, surveillance, and speculative design. With a background in consumer product development and digital advertising, her practice confronts the dissonance between artificial systems and the natural world. AL’s work questions the illusion of human control—offering poetic, critical, and at times absurd alternatives that center materiality, process, and biological truth.
Through experimental mediums including cyanotypes on eggshells, bacteria-grown images, and Arduino-driven installations, she cultivates artworks that live, change, and provoke. Her performances and pieces—such as a glittering plastic installation made from NYU campus waste—encourage viewers to interrogate the overlooked systems that shape our lives, from microbiomes to mass manufacturing.
AL’s work has been exhibited at Look Listen Gallery and Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, and she has published in Collide Zine Philly, North Avenue Review, and her co-created zine Pigeons Rising. Currently pursuing her master’s degree in Integrated Design and Media at NYU, she also works as a researcher reimagining the connections between the internet, resilience, and the natural world.
Featured Artwork
Title: Death at Different Scales
Year: 2025
Medium: Cyanotype on eggshells, bacteria growth on agar plate, wire, brushed metal frame
Dimensions: 13.5″ x 17″ x 1″
Price: $800
Status: Original, 1 of 1
Exhibition Information
This piece is featured in May 2025: Echoes of the Earth – Environmental Art, curated by Mekhi Deleon. The exhibition gathers artists who offer radical perspectives on ecology, embodiment, and environmental critique through tactile and conceptual engagement.
In Death at Different Scales, AL creates a quietly confrontational elegy for lives often dismissed—microbes cultivated in sterile labs and chickens culled during bird flu outbreaks. Using cyanotype prints of her own mouth bacteria transferred onto fragile eggshells, the work collapses the distance between scientific detachment and intimate empathy. Wirework and a sterile frame complete the piece, lending it the feel of both a specimen and a shrine.
This piece challenges our assumptions about value, visibility, and the ethics of engineered environments. Through memorializing the unseen and the dispossessed, AL asks: at what scale do we begin to honor life?
Exhibition Dates: May 1 – May 8, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1 | 6 PM – 8 PM
Location: Bushwick Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Audio Transcript: AL, Death at Different Scales
(for accessibility: full transcript below)
A quiet, unsettling requiem, stitched from science and grief.
In Death at Different Scales, AL fuses bacteria, eggshells, wire, and projection to honor lives often deemed too small to matter. Microbes cultivated from her own body, shells fractured and suspended, glowing against the sterile backdrop of scientific detachment.
Here, fragility is not a flaw but a language. Wire cages hold remnants of once-living worlds, each suspended moment asking: what is truly disposable? Where does reverence begin?
Death at Different Scales challenges us to look closer, to grieve deeper, and to rethink our place within the vast web of life—where even the tiniest fracture ripples outward.