Musician Quintron tunes in to toxic waters with new artwork

[Scott Eustis]

nice article that synthesizes Quintron's work, but also Helis' multiple contributions to the subject matter--the money that funds Prospect is the money that polluted Black Bay.

http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2018/02/musician_quintron_tunes_in_to.html

By Pelican Bomb

New Orleans-based musician and artist Quintron's "Organic Matter Death Clock (O.M.D.C.), 2017", has all the familiar trappings of a science-fair experiment. Plants, some native to Louisiana, others not, in colorful plastic planters are perched on top of vintage milk crates next to a table of "toxins" being used to feed the plants: water from the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, and the Industrial Canal; Organic California red wine; and Diet Coke.

On cloth-covered pedestals, two different species of plants battle for their lives, with an IV drip of that week's toxin feeding into the surrounding soil. An analogue synthesizer attached by wires translates the plants' distress into various sounds. Behind them, a whiteboard records findings. With this artwork, on view at the Prospect.4 Welcome Center, 750 Carondelet St., New Orleans, we're seemingly back in high school. All that's missing is the nervous teenager describing their experimental design.

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Scott Eustis

Community Science Director

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