Mirages Of Human Nature, 2025 (ongoing)

Woollage series

Textile-based sculptural assemblage

raw wool, burlap, reclaimed fabric, silk, found objects, steel rod, clamps, salvaged wood

Photography by LelleFotografie

This project investigates the expressive potential of raw wool—both as material and metaphor. It unfolds as a material inquiry into absence: how what is no longer present can become physical, leaving trace, weight, and form. The work reads as an inhabited ruin—a tactile architecture of the void.

This series draws on the Stations of the Cross (Via Crucis). In dialogue with their art-historical iconography, I use their sequence to trace how grief reshapes the world we inhabit. Each work marks a point of tension, weight, rupture or transition. In this context, raw wool, burlap, reclaimed fabric, found objects and salvaged wood act as archetypal carriers of burden, fragility and endurance.

From this material ground, the project interrogates what it means to be human in the age of AI. In moments of vulnerability, what matters is the capacity to bear witness. When this gesture is absent, the boundary turns porous: humans reveal themselves to be more mechanical than we like to believe, while AI may appear less machine than we assume.

This work is often activated within urbex sites—post-industrial shells where function has collapsed and the building turns into pure atmosphere: dust, dampness, rust, echo, and a sense of suspended time. In these spaces, the work becomes site-responsive in the fullest sense. The space does not simply host the pieces; it answers them. Its rough surfaces, stains, fractures, and exposed structure align with the works’ material presence until a brief reciprocity emerges: the pieces ground the space, and the space amplifies the pieces. Boundaries loosen. The environment ceases to function as a backdrop and becomes part of the work’s skin—less a documented installation than a presence revealed.