Arts Thread

A rhizome spreads its roots, grows into the unknown – the not-yet discovered corners of the psyche. It expands, clutches onto itself, it takes over, transforms and echoes. The rhizome submerges you, overwhelms you with its presence. Voices and machine-like vibrations occupy the space. It surrounds you, penetrates your eyes, your ears, even your mind. And as it grows, it becomes more and more complex – becoming harder to navigate with each expansion. With a logic of its own, it is impossible to completely understand, grasp or control. The multifaceted mechanism is always running at full speed, never fully grown, endlessly expanding and forming new layers. At times, very loudly present, or silently operating in the background.​​​​​​​

Deriving from the idea of rhizomatic networks; the illusion of an ever expanding network is created through the use of a multitude of materials and media. The textured skins that form the exterior of the machine-like creatures create a dynamic whole, interacting with its environment on multiple levels. Through the absorption and scattering of light and implementing interventions in the architecture leading to an immersive reversed echochamber that invites to become part of the machine - stepping into other possible worldings. The layeredness in materiality forms a lineality to the concepts that are representative within my practice, with ideas regarding hybrid creatures and cyborgs, the merging of more into one, is here expressed in different outputs.