Ashley Bickerton's *Wild Gene Pool: Ark* is a striking assemblage that combines industrial materials—anodized aluminum, rubber, leather, and mountaineering harness—with an array of raw seeds including corn, soybean, rice, wheat, and rye, among others. The work functions as a kind of survival vessel or repository, evoking themes of preservation, genetic diversity, and humanity's fraught relationship with the natural world. Through its tension between manufactured materials and organic matter, Bickerton raises urgent questions about ecological vulnerability and the commodification of nature's most fundamental resources.