Liquid Grounds is a multidisciplinary work combining glass objects and a silent video, offering a micro-perspective on belonging and dwelling rooted in the notion of “ground” connecting land, water, and memory in poetic motion. The glass objects are cast from sections of an old wooden floor from the artist’s former home in Amsterdam North, a neighborhood shaped by gentrification. Varying in size with mostly round, organic forms, their undersides reveal fossil-like imprints of domestic life, functioning as miniature museum specimens that preserve traces of time and place. In this way, the glass serves as both artifact and lens, observing its own history.
Displayed on a large rectangular Styrofoam buoy transformed into a lightbox, the objects’ ethereal presence evokes sea creatures traveling from Amsterdam North to other locations, referencing the area’s shipbuilding heritage. In the silent video, the glass objects are reanimated and magnified, appearing like living microorganisms—singly, in pairs, or clusters—drifting against a vast black background. Divided into numbered chapters reminiscent of educational science films, the work traces a journey from the archaeology of a familiar place to abstract micro- and macrocosmic forms, evoking blood cells, bacteria, unicellular fungi, or alien moons and planets.
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making silicon molds of wooden floor at my home in Amsterdam Noord
silicon molds of wooden floor, home Amsterdam Noord
