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This work began with the true story of a calf with human genes born for an experiment with dairy cows producing human milk. She has two anonymous human women mothers who donated their genes, a surrogate cow mother, a genetic father, and two scientist fathers. She has never seen her kind and spent her days with a caretaker when suddenly, one day, she inexplicably burst into tears.

Grounded in the dairy cattle industry and the industry of surrogate mothers, the work looks at how technological objects such as gastrostomy, breast pumps, and gene editing technology create disconnection, whether they are the detachment of organs and even embryos from the subject or emotional disconnection.

Are organs being objectified by genetic engineering and the market, or are technological objects being absorbed into the body as new organs?