As quietly as moss grows

YEAR: 2022
MEDIUM: Hand-tied elastic thread, shop interiors, 240 x 240 x 400cm
FUNDING: Art au Centre, Liège

This spiderweb installation is another material manifestation from my short story, In the beginning...

“She had noticed that in recent days the spiderwebs had been growing larger and denser, seeming to completely take over the abandoned shops and offices. She heard a noise, a crunch of a leaf behind her, and quickly darted around, startled. As she did so her torch briefly flashed into a nearby window, illuminating the thin, silky lines of a spiderweb. She turned back, shining the light carefully across the lines from left to right, as if reading a book. And within the path of light she deciphered the words ‘as quietly as moss grows’ spelled out with spidery precision.”
- Chapter VII, In the beginning...

Here, we witness a moment of shifted perspectives, with humanity learning to live alongside a moon that is covered in moss and thus depriving them of vital moonlight. In the chaos that ensues on an Earth plunged into darkness, humans realise they are resident on a planet where they are no longer in charge. They begin to take notice of the small and unnoticeable. They learn to read messages in spiderwebs blanketing the capitalist ruins of a past world.

Credits
Commissioned by: 10th edition of Art au Centre.
Exhibited at: abandoned shop at Rue Saint-Gilles 44, Liège.
Installation assistance: Alex Wight.