Sonia AliBio — Geo — Cosmo

Long-form notes & essays — a working log

Writing & Process

A selection of essays and studio notes, edited from the longer archive at stormsinateacup.blogspot.com.

September 2015
Thinking with algae
Notes on what it means to take a single-celled organism seriously as a collaborator rather than as a material — and on the slow technical work of building a pin-hole camera that the algae might recognise as a relative.
Process
November 2014
On the carbon-mitigation mojito
A cocktail is a strange place to put a research finding. Notes from the opening night of Inhale : Exhale at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation — and on the persistent strategy of using food as a Trojan horse for science.
Process
April 2015
Non-human intelligence and the limits of the venn diagram
Humans and Chlamydomonas share around thirty-five per cent of their genome. What do we do with that fact? A short essay written for the AHRC Commons presentation at the University of York.
Writing
June 2015
Notes from the studio floor — Anthropocene fragments
Plastic as a future strata sample. On the slow process of casting found objects into plaster and the question of which decade you would, if pressed, like to leave behind for the geological record.
Process
March 2013
What the blog is for
An early post setting out what the writing practice is — a working log, a place for half-formed ideas, and a slow archive parallel to the studio itself.
Writing

Studio sketchbook

Studio Notes

A looser, more immediate register drawn from the working sketchbook at dissonantworkinprogress.tumblr.com.