“You are comprised of: 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth we have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by (an egg) and a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing. You are not living on Earth. You are Earth." ~ Aubrey Marcus As we destroy nature we destroy ourselves. Orchids is a mixed media piece inspired by the words of Aubrey Marcus. It contains 75 life-sized, 12 week old human fetus models, recessed and camouflaged painted into an enlarged reproduction of Plate 74: Orchidae; a lithography print created by Ernst Haeckel in 1904.