CCYD STUDIO

PROJECT

Dandelion Satellites, 2019-21

Materials: electric boxes, conduit, hand painted plexiglass, lighting and wires.

Dimensions: variable/installation dependent

Dandelion Satellites examines the uneasy convergence of engineered systems and natural growth, using modular industrial forms to expose the vulnerability embedded within contemporary technological infrastructures.

Dandelion Satellites is a modular installation composed of industrial electrical boxes, conduit, wiring, and hand-painted plexiglass elements assembled into structures that resemble speculative plant forms or hybrid organisms. While visually suggestive of growth and vitality, these constructions are built from rigid, standardized components designed for control, efficiency, and containment.

The project operates within the tension between natural systems and engineered infrastructure, examining how contemporary environments increasingly rely on technological frameworks that simulate resilience while remaining structurally brittle. By allowing wiring and connections to remain exposed, the work foregrounds vulnerability rather than concealment, emphasizing points of dependency, failure, and maintenance.

Situated within CCYD Studio’s broader investigation of material systems and ecological perception, Dandelion Satellites reflects on how industrial design both borrows from and suppresses organic intelligence. The work resists nostalgia for nature as a separate or idealized entity, instead proposing a hybrid condition in which technological and ecological systems are inseparably entangled — and equally precarious.

“In Technorganic, the two-person creative team of CCYD Studio (Carlos Carrillo and Yevgenia Davidoff) and multidisciplinary artist Rachelle Diaz present an homage to infrastructure that exposes the vulnerability of built and natural environments while documenting the sweeping social changes of late-stage capitalism on a human scale. Through an immersive installation that utilizes assemblage, photography, and painting, the artists activate new relationships between everyday materials and recontextualize readymade elements.”

— https://www.icosacollective.com/past/2019-technorganic