In this body of work I have taken inspiration from the run-down cars that sit next to the ponds where the frogs live(d). The ceramic sculptures in this series echo automotive dashboards, farm equipment, radios, and welders to create speculative machinery with vague purposes. Instead of dials and gauges that would reveal information about the machine’s purpose, I have placed living organisms: wildflowers, frogs, lichen, and algae, that connect to the machines. The BioIndicators’ purposes are left largely to interpretation, but one thing is clear: the human-made machines and the plants and animals in the little windows have some influence on one another. They are a speculative element of a possible future.