Under the guise of feeding the world, multinational agrichemical companies like Bayer-Monsanto market their pesticides and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as a way to improve agricultural productivity. However, such chemical-intensive farming practices poison our soil, increase the chemical burden from farms to forks, and threaten our planetary health. Kirsten Stolle's hand-cut collage, Chemical Bouquet II, examines the overuse of pesticides and the introduction of GMOs. Ornately framed Victorian flower bouquets overflowing with familiar botanical plants have been subverted and populated with odd and unsettling imagery associated with chemical-intensive farming practices.
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