ShanWu &
Drew Cavicchi


Mark
Mark


DOMESTICATION, 2021
Grass, exit sign
Exit Sign: height 27.3 cm (10.75 in), diameter 40 cm (15.75 in)


DOMESTICATION juxtaposes the concept of indoor and outdoor, as well as the concept of domestication of humans and plants. This work is made as a response to the COVID-19 stay-at-home order and the contemplation on land use, home gardening, urban lifestyle and the environment.


During quarantine, I started to take walks around the neighborhood of Glendale. I collected seeds and cuttings fallen on the ground and grew them in my apartment. I didn’t have a piece of land to grow plants at the apartment I rented in LA, so all of my plants lived in pots—a confined space just like me living in an apartment. This is the background for the making of “Domestication”.



Mark