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In the context of emerging innovations trying to materialize within obsolete schemes (some institutional, some cultural), the artist is revealed as the enabler of new spaces for production. Soil Stations are links of connection with the Earth, plugs for energetic transference between soil matter and body matter, and through connection, energetical and conceptual dialogues emerge as thinking systems that belong to primal states of consciousness. Soil Stations are units of soil carved from the inside of the Earth, using soil as an element to sculpt shapes and volumes made by hand. By sculpting the volumes, a connection between the body’s dimension and natural soil occurs, and the results are soil extensions that fit the body. The stations are sculpted on the forest surface to produce exchange, by touch, triggering a system of energy between the Earth, body, forest, and the planetary energetical system connecting the atmosphere with outer space. Insights on bioenergy related to environmental engineering have informed the project, which delves into the study of properties of microorganisms on soil and biomass that are capable of producing bioelectricity by means of chemical exchange, and such process can be amplified by the implementation of the union of technological systems like the microbial fuel cell system with the human body. The result is the direct use of the body as a connector element per se, using the principles of a microbial fuel cell system of soil, but with a novel component: the body and cosmic rays. Soil Stations is one of the outcomes of the collaboration with scientist Ioannis Ieropolous, Chair in Environmental Engineering and Head for the Water & Environmental Engineering Group (WEEG) at the University of Southampton, U.K. This collaboration advances the creation of energy production systems and sustainable art making, while transcending spiritually, the ecological and global crisis.