Aurora Mahassine

My art has been most concerned with the integration of Nature & Cities and I am increasingly focused on bio-filtration - using soil and plants to produce beautiful unique installations and affordable modular systems that provide multiple environmental benefits including carbon sequestration, urban heat reduction, water filtration and can even heal E. coli infected waterways with eco-systemic regeneration. View a video about Aurora’s vision for cities here. Aurora is also a featured Green Artist at this years Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival. She is part of a group of Bay Area artists that explore the climate crisis through the lens of contemporary art, in collaboration with Green Change, a grassroots environmental network. Explore more here.
I have dedicated my work to the marriage of nature and architecture. My artwork is a collaboration with nature and my sculpture and modular systems are beautiful enhancements, but they’re always in service to the natural world in that they are made from sustainable materials, that they actually provide support to the life and life cycles of at least one identified local species and that they enliven the place where they are installed. I want to cover as much concrete with soil and plants as possible!  See more of Aurora’s work here.