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Each Ecosphere reliquary explores a model of Barbadian society, whether imagined or reality, based on careful analysis of our history. Each iterations of this “self sufficient” system utilizes the few things Barbados has in abundance: hot sun and ocean. With each experiment I alter the combination of necessities the plants have access to for growth: water, sunlight, nutrients and oxygen and observe how they adapt, suffer, thrive or die. The plants represent us island people. When do we thrive? Can we ever be self-sufficient? What would that look like? Is regression the way forward?