Hedwich Rooks

replicas of coastal morphodynamics (on-site plaster casts)

photogrammetry screenshots of snow-covered sand dunes

glass made from washed-up Saharan dust on cars, using a cuttlebone as a mold (microscopic photograph)

Ongoing research of frozen-in-time processes on how form arises from motion that show intertwined elements of natural phenomena which stretches matter beyond its capabilities. The natural phenomena-in-flux of this exploration can be distinguished from each other because they have been named and defined, and therefore fixed throughout human language history. This chain reaction of manually extracted and transformed materialities and morphologies aim to escape language-based definitions, in order to rethink our collective ecological understanding.

microlandscapes derived from a photograph of the internal structure of a cuttlebone (left; ceramics, right; glass)

replicas of coastal morphodynamics (on-site plaster casts)

Ongoing research of frozen-in-time processes on how form arises from motion that show intertwined elements of natural phenomena which stretches matter beyond its capabilities. The natural phenomena-in-flux of this exploration can be distinguished from each other because they have been named and defined, and therefore fixed throughout human language history. This chain reaction of manually extracted and transformed materialities and morphologies aim to escape language-based definitions, in order to rethink our collective ecological understanding.

glass made from washed-up Saharan dust on cars, using a cuttlebone as a mold (microscopic photograph)

microlandscapes derived from a photograph of the internal structure of a cuttlebone (above; ceramics, below; glass)

photogrammetry screenshots of snow-covered sand dunes