Liminal Blooms: Hybrid Ecologies

This work emerges from a practice-led dissertation into the entangled futures of biodiversity and technology. In the face of Ireland's accelerating ecological decline, this exhibition examines how algorithmic processes can engage in speculative acts of remembrance and care for endangered species.

Drawing on small, curated datasets of native Irish insects and wildflowers, including the great yellow bumblebee, the pearl-bordered fritillary, and the green-flowered helleborine, the project uses machine learning to imagine a new kind of meadow: one where species dissolve, reconfigure, and hybridise through code. The resulting images are not scientific illustrations or stable taxonomies, but liminal forms, flickering thresholds between memory and disappearance, signal and noise.

This video work traces the slow blooming of algorithmic life, a generative ecology where image fragments emerge, dissolve, and reassemble. Created in response to Ireland’s accelerating biodiversity crisis, the machine becomes both seed bank and pollinator, generating liminal blooms that hover between memory and emergence.