Overgrowing Technology: A Ghost in the Archive (2023)
The garden is already a database. A controlled environment where images of nature are stored, indexed, made retrievable. Here, technology documents growth, organizes it into folders, timestamps it, makes it searchable. What was once wild is now archived, its unruliness flattened into a gallery of stills.
At the center stands a figure that refuses resolution. It's not entirely absent, but not fully legible either. It lingers where it shouldnโt, as if technology, in its attempt to hold everything, has produced a residue, a ghost.
Itโs the system showing its seams. The checkerboard of transparency, the layering of files, the collapse of foreground and backgroundโthe machine is struggling to contain what cannot be fully processed.
Overgrowing technology. Or maybe, technology overgrowing itself. The archive is haunted not by memory, but by its own limits.
