Liquid Grounds is a multidisciplinary artwork of glass objects and a silent video film. It offers a micro-perspective on belonging and dwelling, rooted in the notion of "ground." The glass objects are cast from sections of an old wooden floor from my former home in Amsterdam North—an area deeply shaped by gentrification. These vary in size with mostly round, organic shapes; when viewed like through a glass paperweight or camera lens, their undersides reveal fossil-like imprints of that domestic space, acting as a specimen case or miniature museum that encapsulates traces of life tied to place and time. In this way, the glass becomes both artifact and lens for observing its own history.
Liquid Grounds serves as a poetic document on our unstable foundations amid economic and social challenges. Displayed on a large rectangular styrofoam buoy transformed into a lightbox, the objects amplify their ethereal presence and tie land to water—resembling sea creatures that journeyed from Amsterdam North to Seoul, evoking the area's shipbuilding heritage that thrived until 1984.
video stills
making silicon molds of wooden floor at my home in Amsterdam Noord
silicon molds of wooden floor, home Amsterdam Noord
