The central protagonist and slave from the 'Salem' withcraft trials-
Tituba is raised from the dead as a synthetic body for occult transformation.

 

'Super-natural' is an ongoing work which makes a connection between two points in time, the peak in witchcraft from the cusp of the enlightenment period in Western history and the emergent molecular technologies in our current time, both periods signalling the onset of some kind of revolutionary or accelerated change- a paradgm shift. Witchcraft, during the infamous Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, has been described as a manifestion of extreme stress and anxiety. A symptom from the mediation and control of the cultural, political and religious systems present during this time.

''Tituba' a slave of the Rev. John Procter and the central protagonist from the Salem witchcraft trials has been synthesized into a new and unique chemically engineered bio-synthetic entity. 'Tituba' was designed as a sensor from circular plasmid vectors and inserts, she was ligated, digested, cloned initially into e-coli DH5 ∂ and then finally transformed into the AmyE gene of Bacillus Subtilis 168 with a two-component regulatory system for sending and receiving signals. She excretes fluorescent protein under stress and is only visible under blue ultra-violet light, otherwise she is invisible.

 

Tituba' is currently in deep cryo freeze at -80ºc and awaits further acts of abstracted transformation.