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RationaleYou Are Made of Stardust + Microplastics is an ongoing project of material transformation that explores deep time and the ambiguous grief of the current slow-motion mass-extinction event (Kolbert 2015).Alongside the work of defending our living planet, there is a necessity for collective ritual to process the planetary grief of our era (Weller 2025).
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