WITHIN inFERTILE unCOMMON GROUNDS

This series attempts to discuss how we sense and perceive our surroundings, whether we are familiar with them, partially familiar, or not at all. Our understanding of those surroundings can give them a new life.

Somewhere within the series we see a butterfly needle piercing the heart of a plant. How do we understand the presence of a needle intended to draw blood samples in a nature setting? What we have before our eyes is perhaps some home gardening hack. The needle is placed there to extract or deliver a fluid. This can be our attempt to explain the unfamiliar. How do we experience what we cannot comprehend? How does our mind perceive change and unknown territories? Standing in front of a curious situation, we will seek familiar concepts to define the unfamiliar. It is somehow interesting that we can create new life when we encounter things out of their home environment, under a different light, or moulded into a new shape. Re-observing them, we draw a fresh meaning from them and allow them to exist in a whole new space. There is a deliberate choice of elements depicted throughout the series discussing, in parallel, the matters of fertility and maternity.