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leftovers explores the premise of materials, stories, and ecologies that are unconsumed, undesirable, or unloved and re-birthed through the care of the artist.

Roots from trees in upstate New York are scavenged by Motohiro Takeda with the help of his children and blackened with the traditional shou sugi ban technique, becoming totemic installations. Anna-Ting Moller uses symbiotic cultures of bacteria and yeast intended for Kombucha-making and grows the living membrane in her studio. She harvests the skin of this membrane as the surface for her sculptures and wall works. She calls this …