Through the persona Venus Embers, Pirate Nun & Black Swan of the 21st Century and her search for a heart of gold, Invisible Heart explores the virtue of faith in relation to the use of biotechnology for future solutions to environmental crisis.
As we face the 6th Extinction we can no longer deny the impact human actions have upon the environment. Yet in our quest for solutions to the ecological crisis the answers are not so clear. Do apocalyptic narratives offer us anything of value, or do they need to be abandoned? Where do we place our hope? Is synthetic biology a solution or a threat? How do we proceed within this space of uncertainty? Where do we go from here.