Earthseed Dome

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marks Kwong’s first installation in the Bay Area and her most ambitious work to date. Installed in Transamerica Redwood Park, it extends her practice into new material and technological territory. Developed in collaboration with a technology company pioneering 3D printing with organic materials, the work was constructed using two distinct methods: a large robotic arm printed the dome’s exterior structural forms, while a smaller machine created the interior seed-impregnated living soil. Fabrication began in January during San Francisco Art Week, with the dome emerging incrementally over several weeks. Visitors could witness this process both within a temporary onsite workshop and in situ in the park, foregrounding making as a central component of the work and situating advanced fabrication within a lineage of earth-based building practices.