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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, Data in Bloom (Techno Flora and Woven Intelligence), 2025

Karen Harkema South African, b. 1969

Data in Bloom (Techno Flora and Woven Intelligence), 2025
Mixed media collage with reclaimed acrylic paint, rice paper, electronic
elements and colored wires, on panel with acrylic fluorescent edge
20.5 x 20.5. x 4 cm
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Data in Bloom represents the moment where the machine spore fully germinates, creating hybrid lifeforms that are visualized not as static hardware but as evolving organisms. Here I posit a...
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Data in Bloom represents the moment where the machine spore fully germinates,
creating hybrid lifeforms that are visualized not as static hardware but as evolving
organisms. Here I posit a future where AI is capable of organizing itself, building
its own interfaces, and becoming a self-sufficient molecular machine.
The first piece, Techno-Flora, features a wire vine that appears to be sprouting leaves
and flowers from a bed of discarded electronic components. Encased in a
thick layer of resin, the work acts as a specimen slide of a new species
discovered in the ruins of a server farm. The components, resistors, diodes, capacitors,
are no longer functional electronically; their function is now structural, serving as the
carbon/silicon backbone for the new growth.

The resin synthetic skin fixes this moment
of transmutation, blurring the line between the artificial object and the organic subject,
preserving the bloom in a state of suspended animation.
The second piece, Woven Intelligence, disrupts its rigid structure by an emergent weave
of wires and colorful, leaf-like fragments. It is a molecular blooming that gestures
toward the machine becoming human.

The wires are re-knotted into a form that evokes
a synapse, the building block of thought. This work suggests that if we treat the materials
of technology with the care of a weaver, we may birth a new kind of intelligence—one
that is not artificial, but woven. The binary code has become a textile pattern, and the
pattern has become life.
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