Audrey Snyder and Joe Riley collected discarded materials, useful debris, flotsam, jetsam, and various hand tools scattered around the grounds of The Mothership to build a stool. The stool became a press for drying flowers harvested from the garden. The weight of the sitter compresses sheets of newsprint, and straps secure all the materials in place. Overtime, the flowers are pressed, dried, and archived and put back to work as the colorful matter of another project. 

Joe Riley and Audrey Snyder are frequent collaborators. Their art is material-driven and focuses on stories of landscapes with the purpose of creating political and economical awareness. Riley was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study program (2016-17) and has a BFA from Cooper Union (2014). Snyder is a chef and holds a BFA from Cooper Union (2013).

Riley and Snyder have exhibited works with Futurefarmers, an artist collective group, at venues such as Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, (UAE (2017), Resistance After Nature, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA (2017), and Left Coast: California Political Art, CUNY James Gallery, NY (2015), among others.