Canaries in the Coal Mine is a series of sculptures built upon large plastic bottles from which complex forms proliferate. The works reference organic growth such as coral reefs and fungal networks. Animal forms are chromatically enmeshed with the plastic, suggesting coexistence among species, manufactured matter, and synthetic environments.

The title references the historical use of birds as early indicators of toxic conditions. In the present, it positions humans and other species as already living within plastic-saturated environments, the biological and ecological implications of which are still emerging.

The work explores entanglement between living systems and manufactured materials. Waste is treated not as an endpoint, but as an active condition shaping contemporary environments. The exhibition proposes that ecology today is defined less by separation between natural and artificial systems and more by overlapping networks in which materials, species, and residues continuously interact, adapt, and transform.