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Project by: James Haynes
Biosphere 1, Biosphere 2, Biosphere 3: Earth, the Arizona experiment, and this archive. What begins as an interest in Biosphere 2 becomes a way of reexamining the desire to contain a world—to model a planet and rehearse survival in miniature. Across media, documents, and projections, the project moves between record and interpretation, asking how we perceive planetary crisis while already inside and altering it. Biosphere 3 makes visible what is usually dispersed: our traces, residues, and pressure on systems never meant to sustain such intensity. It is both archive and capsule, shaped by ongoing disturbance rather than sealed from it. Rejecting the techno-optimism of its predecessor, it leans into contradiction. The project is not outside what it critiques; it is implicated in it. Like the Arizona structure itself, it reveals how enclosure and environment, experiment and reality, remain inseparable and continuously entangled.
