Homo PHO2TOsynthesis is a speculative story set in 2049 and told by my future self reflecting on the six stages of transformation into a chimera symbiotically tangled with the photosynthetic breath of algae, a human-algae phytosymbiont absorbing the air’s burden of ever-increasing CO2 emissions. 

Here a first glimpse into my current research and work for this Sci-Fi project. The work emerges as an artistic response to the growing burden of CO2. I started my research at  HIAP : Helsinki International Artist Programme 2025. My three month residency was supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts & Culture (BMKOES)

During my HIAP residency on Suomenlinna, I explored new speculative and ancient human-sea and human-algae relationships while initiating algae-friendly cultivation in a phyto-plant-station using local cultures from the Finmari Collection. A collaboration with doctoral researcher Sonja Repetti based at Tvärminne Zoological Station. Inspired by plant-animals, I began my first experiments in “becoming chloroplastic,” starting with the skin as a site for human-algae fusion - forming green membranes. Alongside this material research, I wrote the eco-futurist retrospective “The Chloroplast Protocols – A Posthuman Hymn in Six Breaths.” Set in the year 2049, it is told by my future self contemplating over the six stages of becoming Homo Photosynthesis. In parallel, I composed a speculative scientific logbook, reporting  with technical notes the stages of my metamorphic time. These narratives form the framework of the project and my future visions. You are welcome to contact me for PDFs of the texts.

In 2025 and 2026 I will continue developing the project

"And just as certain shelled algae, in times of scarcity, envelop themselves in survivalcapsules, sink to the bottom of the sea and wait until environmental conditions change for the better, so I waited." 

Small excerpt from the SF story I wrote with the work: "The Chloroplast Protocols - A Posthuman Hymn in Six Breaths"