Terraformer is a multimedium project that began as a portrait of my grandfather. Landscape images and plant matter are subjected to an arbitrary ordering system and thrown off balance. The cactus is cut from one side and then grafted back on to itself on the other creating pads with unusual growths/duplications. The plant loses no physical matter but experiences a reorganizing of its existing mass (in the landscapes its weight is shifted towards the slope, towards entropy). A wall with no mortar is built on the site, then moved imaginarily. The piece tries to capture a pointlessness in human ordering, and the expansive tolerance of living things.
Studio Grafts

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Site Grafts, Aegina

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