When human-centric systems collapse, new possibilities arise. Swelling Matter inhabits decay, transforming the post-apocalyptic ruins of a corporate office into a living dreamscape- a hybrid habitat where past structures surrender to unexpected growth. The installation dwells within this collapse, asking: what unfolds when systems exhaust themselves, when architecture outlives its purpose? Echoing Jesse Darling, the work strives “to dream the garden in the ruin.” From these remnants, new ecologies- material, affective, speculative- begin to take shape.
