Intimate waste, environmental ephemera cast in domestic construction materials including: palm husks, braided palm fronds, air plants, plastic funerary foliage, desiccated tropical plants, landscape marking spray, floor resin, wall insulation foam, interior latex house paint,

A gestating figure is inspired by Caribbean tales about pregnancy, which claim that citrus cravings and nausea indicate the gender of a fetus. The work considers the culture of pregnancy in the Americas, a complicated historical, political, and geographic context wherein conquering the tropical landscape and women’s bodies stem from a colonial Eurocentric legacy. Rendering the poetics of survival in tropical geopolitical climates, the title conjures legislative legacies, with mythology of politicized reproduction when Victor Berger (a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America) proclaims in 1912: “We should have to drain the swamp...if we want to get rid of those mosquitos.” The phrase was popularized in 1919 by Musollini’s fascist party.

The work's title draws from "Mother Poem" a book and poem written by Caribbean poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite.
"Flowered / dead river courses: dry causes / the leaves of the land eaten by tourists / my mother's vision blocked by bricks and cement blacks / leak of cool from the grass / from the glass of thirst / in her throat / and her children."