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Germination
Art book / sculptural object
This metal artist book created in dialogue with a poem by Ukrainian writer Sergiy Zhadan.
The project explores the moment when silence begins to take shape and the invisible turns into matter.
The poetic text speaks about the cyclical rhythm of existence — the transformation of darkness into growth, of soil into voice, of stillness into movement. Thought, time and earth become inseparable, unfolding as a continuous process of emergence.
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Metal, used as the material of the book, echoes this idea of pressure, memory and slow transformation. The pages hold the poem as if it were sediment, a trace of something that once moved through darkness before becoming form.
Black exterior acrylic spreads across the metal, evoking wet soil after rain.
The surface grows warm, dense, and heavy — an earth where strength lies dormant and growth gathers.
The book is made of mirror-polished and raw steel combined with epoxy resin and acrylic graphic layers.
Later, linear raster structures begin to appear.
Lines overlap and multiply, intensifying each other through reflection.
From a dense, primordial mass the image gradually shifts toward order — from matter to structure, from silence to language.
The book includes photographs by artist Alexandra Sklyarenko, depicting motifs of living nature — spring grass and wild flowers.
These images extend the visual narrative, allowing organic life to emerge within the constructed structure, as a quiet but persistent voice.
Mirror-polished and raw steel, epoxy resin, acrylic graphic layers, photographic inserts, 20x20x5 sm
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