Nancy Macko

As a social practice, my work addresses life’s fundamental questions. I photograph the process of the life and death of plants that serves as a metaphor of our brief existence. Increasingly threatened by encroaching development, plants remind us how fragile our ecosystem is. In my most current work, Decompositions, I explore the often-overlooked processes of domestic food usage and recycling through intimate images of my kitchen compost bin. In this body of work, I have developed a heightened awareness of non-binary and queer spaces—what Michel Foucault referred to as “heterotopias,” or spaces that exist as ‘other’ –boundaries are permeable.