GROW BY GINGKO BIOWORKS
By Elvia Wilk
ILLUSTRATION, ART DIRECTION
Love Island
By Elvia Wilk
ILLUSTRATION, ART DIRECTION
Love Island is a short story written by Elvia Wilk for the Equity Issue of Grow, a magazine produced by Ginkgo Bioworks. Ginkgo Bioworks is an American biotech company founded in 2008 by five scientists from MIT.
This scifi-romance story takes place in space between two main protagonists. The story paints a vivid imagination of various household objects and spaces that are familiar, yet out of this world, all of which became the foundation of the following artwork.
This scifi-romance story takes place in space between two main protagonists. The story paints a vivid imagination of various household objects and spaces that are familiar, yet out of this world, all of which became the foundation of the following artwork.
“In space, everything is architecture. There is no nature—just dust, dead matter, molecules, the void.
On Earth, the ingredients for survival are readily available. Water, oxygen, green stuff.
But in space, you can only live if you build something, and there’s nothing around you except what you build.
Just building. The building itself and the act of constantly building it.”
—Excerpt from the story
“It was only seven minutes long, and mostly it was footage of me. But just my hands. My hands, typing things, pointing at things, and once, holding Tina’s. Instead of her signature voiceover, the only soundtrack was my own voice.”
—Excerpt from the story
