TERRAPHYTIC

- Gallery Vacancy, Paris Internationale - Paris, France

- Musum of Climate and Immigration - Paris, France

- White Cube - Hong Kong, China

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This series explores the symbiotic relationship between soil and plants through the Javanese and Balinese myth of Naga Antaboga, the primordial earth deity, and his daughter Dewi Sri, goddess of fertility. Their story embodies a simple ecological truth: soil nourishes plants, and plants sustain the land.

Drawing from these animist cosmologies, the series reimagines natural elements as contemporary icons, inviting reflection on our relationship with the living world in the Anthropocene. Rather than viewing nature as a resource, the works propose it as a sacred, interconnected presence.

The paintings are created exclusively with soil pigments collected in Bali and Java. Alongside this material practice, I study plants from rice field ecosystems under the microscope, translating their cellular structures into patterns printed with earth pigments. Through repetition and symmetry inspired by biological organization, the works merge scientific observation with vernacular cosmologies to construct a new ecological iconography.