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The Space Between
“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, 31 October - 30 November 2026

The Space Between : “We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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Karen Harkema, Techno Garden (Sentient Cluster), 2025

Karen Harkema South African, b. 1969

Techno Garden (Sentient Cluster), 2025
Reclaimed circuit components, speaker, tangled wiring, acrylic on panel
59.5 x 65 x 3.5 cm
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Techno Garden serves as a literal bridge between the mechanical and the biological. The left panel acts as a technical archaeology; its pale, weathered surface has been sanded back to...
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Techno Garden serves as a literal bridge between the mechanical and the biological. The left
panel acts as a technical archaeology; its pale, weathered surface has been sanded back to reveal
layers of history, mimicking the glitches found in a malfunctioning machine or the erosion of an
ancient fresco.

Attached to this surface are the unmade remnants of technology: a small speaker,
a port strip, and a knot of grey wires, repurposed into a new, non-functional narrative. These are
the fossils of sound and connection, the mute organs of a device that once spoke.
In the right panel, formulaic, generative marks have evolved into a network of thick, pale lines
that resemble organic cells or a neural map.

This is the garden, the space of growth and potential.
The work captures the precise moment where unmaking becomes discovery, as the tangled
electrical wires physically cross the central threshold, weaving from the dead tech on the left into
the cellular structure on the right.
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