Typography (Helvetica), Spinach anthotype, Agar petri dishes, Bacteria cultures

Through a series of experimental processes, Helvetica was used as a stencil to be exposed to organic intervention. Placed in petri dishes with agar, the typographic shapes were subjected to microbial cultures. As bacteria interact with the typography, the “perfect” forms of Helvetica begin to decay, mutate, and break down, visually challenging the notion of perfection as static, sterile, or universal.

This project uses contamination not as failure, but as resistance employing organic growth as a critical medium to question the aesthetic and ideological implications of purity and perfectionism.