Ephemeral Threads:Orchid Symphonies Arrangement

Installation, mixed-media, 2025

Corrugated welleplate, expanded volcanic glass (perlite), translucent fabric and printed image brace and obstruct one another like a cross-section of an unfinished greenhouse, forming a single field of structural tension. The bodies of plants have disappeared, yet the conditions that once surrounded them remain, minutely adjusting each other’s direction and weight. At this point, “caring for plants” appears less as an emotion than as a material configuration of minerals, polymers and fibres and the forces they exert.

Without directly representing orchids, the installation traces the biopolitical environment that surrounds them. The greenhouse functions as a technology of protection and isolation, care and regulation at once, and welleplate and perlite are its concrete units. Within this configuration, the orchid is no longer a singular beautiful specimen but a node in a larger circuit connecting minerals, plastics, images and electrical signals. Ephemeral Threads: Orchid Symphonies Arrangement fixes one moment of this circuit to examine how the boundary between living and nonliving, structure and organism, emerges from subtle arrangements and pressures within matter itself.