Design · 2025

Agar Alphabet

Progress Through Process

Medium
Agar plates, live bacteria, Adobe Photoshop
Year
2025
Category
Design
01Agar Alphabet
Lucy’s creature sitting on the workshop bench below the piece

I carved letters and the phrase “Progress Through Process” into agar plates, then grew bacteria from samples collected from my breath and the studio.

I documented the growth, changed the conditions when letters failed to develop, and kept the uneven results as part of the alphabet.

01 / 01Design · 2025
Agar Alphabet: bacteria-grown letterforms across agar plates, alongside the phrase Progress Through Process

Agar Alphabet

Progress Through Process

Agar plates, live bacteria, Adobe Photoshop · 2025

Bacteria-grown letterforms across agar plates, alongside the phrase Progress Through Process.