This project investigates the ways in which the obsession with modernism and chemicals in the mid 1900’s led to an infatuation with the cleansing of pests via killing vapors, emphasizing ideas between agrochemicals and nature, between killing and life. Through an understanding of the dichotomy of industry and domesticity, we analyze the contradictions within these life destroying chemicals and how these concepts may come together, intrinsically tied to one another through a subverted fantastical landscape inferred via the thread of Monsanto Chemical Company. The contradictions between agrochemicals and nature, between killing and life, come together through this lens of imagination and fantasy. We aim to highlight a subverted, fantastical landscape, one connected through the thread of Monsanto, killing vapors, and the lasting effects agrochemical compounds have on human, non human, ecological and environmental health, in an effort to not only bring to light the hidden histories of Monsanto’s killing vapors, but also use architecture and space as a media of propaganda; to highlight an experience in which a glimpse into a facade of endless possibility and unbridled optimism is brought to life.
