Elastic Continuum by Bethan Hughes traces the hidden history of rubber through Taraxacum koksaghyz, a Kazakh dandelion used as a sustainable alternative to industrial rubber. The book follows the plant’s journey from Soviet and Nazi-era labs to Cold War research in the US and modern EU sustainability projects, alongside Hughes’s own explorations of archives, laboratories, and natural landscapes.
Blending archival research, visual documentation, and the artist’s writing, Elastic Continuum examines human intervention, ecological histories, and the overlooked labor of women scientists and caretakers, offering a poetic, intimate perspective on industrial and natural worlds.
