Eroded Landscapes: Microbial Intervention on Polaroid Memory is an immersive bio-art installation that explores ecological fragility through the microbial destruction of photographic landscapes. The work begins with Polaroid photographs, each a singular, unreproducible object that represents forests, coastlines, meadows, and desert environments. After performing a Polaroid lift to expose the emulsion, the artist inoculates each image with mold spores collected from natural and built environments.

As the microorganisms grow, they consume the image layer by layer, dissolving pigments and reshaping the landscape through biological force.

The installation bridges microbiology and expanded photography, transforming a microscopic process into an atmospheric environment. The mold functions as both collaborator and agent of erasure, symbolizing the pressures placed on ecosystems by climate change, pollution, and human intervention.

Just as a Polaroid cannot be reprinted, the artwork underscores the singularity of Earth as an irreplaceable original; once damaged, it cannot be restored