Cielo Saucedo (1993, Whittier, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. They are an access worker and artist from a family of migrant farm workers. Their work encompasses writing, computer generated imagery, sculpture and machine vision. They received their BFA from School of the Art Institute, Chicago in 2020, and their MFA at UCLA in 2024. They were an Eyebeam Democracy Fellow (2024). They are a part of the artist collectives, PlaceHolder and Cripping_CG. Recent exhibitions of their work include presentations at Coaxial Art Center (2025), PlaceHolder Gallery (2025), The Armory, Pasadena for Getty PST (2024), Francios Ghebaly, Los Angeles (2024), BlankSpace, Pittsburgh (2023), New Image Gallery, Los Angeles (2023), Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (2024), MexiCali Biennale, The Cheech at the Riverside Museum (2023), Human Resources, Los Angeles (2022) Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago (2021) and Rudimiento, Quito (2021). They have given panels and lectures at NYU, UPenn, the Whitney Independent Study Program, Emily Carr University, Indiana State University, and the Sandburg Instituut among other institutions.

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Birch Grid
60 ft by 100ft
Discarded Birch Trees and Sand Dune

Installed at Oxbo School of Art.

Sunaura Taylor's concept of disabled ecosystems is used to imagine a type of earth art that aids the ecosystem's ability to survive in itself versus a paternalistic overlay of aesthetic aims on damaged and stolen ecosystems. Birch trees, invasive to Michigan sandy forests where they are commonly found, are made into grid support scaffolding that halts detrimental erosion of sand dunes from vast birch root systems and human foot traffic. It will eventually rot and feed the area and leaving no trace of the work.

The trees are recycled from a past conservation project which cut them down and left them unused.

2018