"Soil Party: Rats, Roots, Worms, and Other Punks" is a multimedia, multi-screen project created through watercolor painting, animation and sound. It consists of twenty GIFs that depict the vibrancy and liveliness of soil—an underground world where creatures like rodents, roots, and worms lead dynamic, busy lives.

The project draws inspiration from Indigenous, feminist, and environmental philosophies that challenge dominant Western narratives about nature and materiality. These thinkers argue that traditional Western thought has often portrayed soil—and other marginalized entities (the “other punks” in the title)—as inert, passive background to the white male subject’s actions. In contrast, Soil Party embraces the idea of soil as an active, sentient, and creative force.

Historically, Western philosophy has elevated abstract, disembodied thought over material and embodied experience. This hierarchy has been used to justify imperial and colonial projects that severed local communities from their lands and means of subsistence. In this context, "Soil Party" becomes a critical artistic response, engaging with broader debates about the relationship between environment, embeddedness, and social justice. Through a fantastical and colorful visual language, the project invites viewers to reimagine soil not as lifeless matter, but as a thriving, diverse, and creative entity.