Mar's Barn

The Refinary

The Mar's refinery explores the ethics of resource exploitation in outer space exploration. Made of upcycled craft materials, the refinery imagines a universe where the components of one of Mars' largest resources, rust, is turned into its core elements: iron and oxygen.

Capitalism in Outer Space

The refinery pumps oxygen into canisters for big pharma to sell to citizens in a low oxygen environment, such as a polluted Earth or those occupying the Moon or Mars Meanwhile the iron is exported to various infrastructure companies.

Memorial to Earth's Moon

Made of Super Sculpey and acrylic paints, this sculpture was created with consideration of what we might memorialize in the future if we do not take accountability for our actions now in regards to resource exploration.