ABOUT MikRo Art Factory

Mike Edwards
and
Rosa Quintana Lillo

Mike and Rosa are an artist collective working out of their studios in Agassiz BC. Over the years, they have used many materials and methods to create work with. Future micro plastics are washing up on coastal beaches everywhere. It has become their medium and their content. Love it and hate it. What to do but make art with it. Isolate it and use it.

They live in the Fraser Valley, where they are active as both official and rogue tree-planters. Rosa is of Mapuche Meztizo descent; her ancestors were charcoal-makers in Chile where biochar production has been practiced, as it has in many other parts of the world, for thousands of years to help people survive and thrive. So for them, the process of making charcoal and ink from locally-sourced organic matter is a direct connection to the land, and also to history. 
 
Through this work of creating “carbon sink art”, and the conversations that spring from it, they explore ways of making choices that are informed and conscious, and which help to encourage a new paradigm and more respectful and connected relationship to the natural world.

"“I dwell in possibility…”
― Emily Dickinson



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Processed micro plastics found on the shores of Johnstone Strait BC

​"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not." – Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

Current Project :    Carbon Sink Art

Our latest explorations are with charcoal: playing with it as an act of hope in times of climate change. By turning organic matter into charcoal, as our  ancestors did, we can sequester small amounts of carbon and then either turn them into inks for painting or into soil amendments appreciated by both plants and animals. Whatever the charcoal becomes, the path it takes to reach its destination lends itself well to conversation.



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Past Projects

​Our 2021installations used found beach rope and recycled plastic bottles and jars and were  on display at The Ranger Station Art Gallery in Harrison Hot Springs and at The Mission Art Centre in Mission, BC as part of the Fraser Valley Biennial 2021.

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