biophilia: Goods and Services ᎬᏃᏗ ᎠᏓᎨᏳᏗ: ᏧᎬᏩᎶᏗ ᎾᎾᏛᏁᎲᏃ gvnodi adageyudi: tsugawahldi nanadvnehvhno, 2005, Welded steel and waxed cloth, 4 units, each 40 x 40 x 10 inches, photo credit: Bill Bachuber

biophilia: Goods and Services address the way scientific discoveries often become commodified. Technologies that improve standards of living for humans often come at a high cost to the environment. These hard edge metal tables look industrial and like they belong in a laboratory or medical setting. They contrast with the organic forms they unsuccessfully try to hold, as the form proliferate and fall out of their holders on to the floor.