Building on a body of work where plants become storytellers, healers, and guides, Endangered Feces features two large-scale, durational sculptures created through a collective building process called Revolutionary Mortar. Inspired by the shapes of the excrement of two endangered species, the Houston toad and the Attwater prairie-chicken, each decomposable sculpture holds a mixture of nonhydraulic lime, dirt, and organic materials that highlights the connection between the highest-volume crops historically cultivated in the South during the time of slavery and plant matter from the diet of endangered animals. The artworks decompose over time, revitalizing the landscape through intervention, intention, and education.

Platform: jackie sumell is organized by Alison Weaver, Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director, in partnership with Rice University Art Department Associate Professor Natasha Bowdoin. It is made possible by the Moody Center for the Arts Founders Circle. 

Since launching in 2017, the artists commissioned for the Platform series include Jarrod Beck, Rana Begum, Julia Gartrell, Eva LeWitt, Nina Katchadourian, Devin Kenny, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Edra Soto, Martha Tuttle, and We Make Carpets.