From the distillation of algal biodiesel, to the extraction of a geologic core sample with a set of gardening tools, to the imagined fabrication of fiber optic infrastructures, Marissa Lee Benedict is an artist who explores connection as material and energy as form. She researches and recreates industrial systems and scientific processes to become intimately familiar with the plant and mineral elements that we extract, concentrate and metabolize to fuel our highly synthesized and ever-accelerating world.