Soil Searching is an installation presented at The Lab artist residency in Mexico City. The work presents a projection of a film made by taking endoscopic video recordings at sites in and around Mexico City that exemplify how different eras of power inevitably rise and fall and how human and ecological wellbeing are intertwined. This included sites such as the volcano Xitle, an abandoned hacienda, and a local chinampa. The work explores soil as ecosystem, body, and historical text, rich in cycles, possibilities, interconnection, and scales of time that outlive us.

The work also explores agricultural hand tools as loci of labor, speculative desire, transformation, and uncertainty. To take their endoscopic videos in soil the artist used tools of their own design to make channels underground for the camera to travel. The installation also presents a self designed tool and associated performance from Partner Planting.