Oxygen Kiosk, 2020

Heidi Kraepel
Glass, oxygen tank, oxygen mask, wood, latex and spray paint, permanent ink

Oxygen Kiosk  has been made in response to learning that phytoplankton produces 50-80% of the world’s oxygen. The tiny Prochlorococcus organism alone accounts for 20% of all atmospheric oxygen. 

Photo of Heidi Kraepel on a beach wearing a blue hat and jacket.

About Heidi

I have been making art since childhood and have a lifelong fascination with the natural world— it’s beauty as well as the functional design that allows all things to work together in amazing and precise physiological and ecological harmony. After studying human anatomy and physiology and considering it to be the best art appreciation course ever, I began to learn about ocean ecology and developed an interest in the marine food web. I was working two-dimensionally with this topic for several years before moving from Michigan to Maine. In my new home state I have been able to observe plankton, whales, and other marine life more directly and with more frequency. I am now exploring three-dimensional means of communicating the connection between marine phytoplankton and all life on earth.