Site Profile: Flags (Dorset, VT/Montara, CA/Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY)

Artist and interdisciplinary researcher Brooke Singer explores scientific data to show how non-scientists may understand and engage with environmental issues in productive, illuminating ways. The ongoing interdisciplinary project "Carbon Sponge" explores the sequestering of carbon in urban and exurban areas. Electronics are used in cultivated plots to continuously monitor soil moisture and temperature, and to measure critical soil properties. By recording factors like rate of plant growth, root lengths, plant weight and soil horizons, there is the hope that data will show optimal conditions for maximal carbon sequestration. Singer continues her interest in soil types and other baseline data from sites around the country in her newest work, the Site Profile Flag series, also on view. This project expands the notion of a soil profile by visually representing above- and below-ground elements of a site’s ecosystem.