Counterpublic 2023: Free Soil Party with jackie sumell

The first aspect of sumell’s project is a private ceremony of returning crushed bricks first, to dirt and then, to the quarries from which the clay used to make them was taken. The crushed dirt is then mixed with sand and the seeds of native pollinator plants, including echinacea, yarrow, bee balm, and goldenrod—chosen to ensure that the plants grown from sumell’s soil also help native bees thrive—to create a “free soil” that is distributed throughout the exhibition at Counterpublic 2023 information hubs.

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