Figure 5. De:composition multimedia project and installation by Stephanie Rae Dixon. The multimedia installation included photographs, dresses at various stages of decomposition embedded in resin, a soundscape, and a box of live forest understory mosses and plants onto which a video of scientists dancing in the dresses in the field site was projected. Several opening receptions featured a live dancer performing in a decomposed dress. An infographic entitled “What is on a decomposing dress? DNA can tell us” (lower right) shows the results of DNA analysis used to identify microbes and other organisms whose DNA had populated a fragment of burlap dress while it was buried and decomposed in the research site. See Artists' Statement in Supplemental Materials, below.