Outisde the Dream House
Drawings on biomaterials
2026 - ongoing
Pijałka
2026
Sculpture prototypes
Referencing traditional Polish spa drinking vessels used in sanatoria and mineral water resorts, the prototype reimagines the cup as a communal object with multiple spouts for multispecies use.
2026
Sculpture prototypes
Referencing traditional Polish spa drinking vessels used in sanatoria and mineral water resorts, the prototype reimagines the cup as a communal object with multiple spouts for multispecies use.
Designed around a shared source of mineral water, the object reflects on collective rituals of healing, regeneration, and care. It proposes the sanatorium not as a space organised around individual treatment, but as an environment inhabited by multiple bodies gathering around extracted natural resources.
31°34′50″N 130°39′29″E
Arcus Project
Research Residency
Ibaraki, Japan
2026
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Spatial scans, bioplastic made from hot spring water
and volcanic ash, interior scan models
Tracing animism through water, Japanese onsen cul-
ture reveals how stones marked with ropes signal the
presence of kami, while legends of wounded animals
healing in thermal pools continue to persist. Water is
not a backdrop but an active agent: volcanic, miner-
al-laden, coloured by iron or sulphur, and behaving
differently from anything that comes from a tap.
Across multiple onsen sites, LiDAR scanning was
attempted to capture spatial conditions. The scans
failed. Steam density was too great to resolve. That
failure became a method: incompleteness as a record
of material resistance.
From collected onsen water, volcanic ash, and hydro-
phone recordings, biomaterials were cast into interior
models built from deformed floor plans, partial recon-
structions of places dissolving under tourism pressure,
abandonment, or geological force. The research asks
what artistic practice can do when matter refuses to
be fully represented, and whether that refusal is itself
a form of knowledge.
Onsenscape
Arcus Project
Research Residency
Ibaraki, Japan
2026
Found fragment of Joe Colombo’s KD28 (1967), 3D-printed element, petri dish, onsen water, sulfur, exciter, field recordings, electrical equipment.
Dimensions: 25 × 20 cm
In declining, abandoned onsen, I recorded the water with and without my body immersed in it. I bring water collected from the same springs back into circulation: the recordings return to it as vibrations. The body changes the sound of the water. When it is no longer there, the water continues to make sound.
Joe Colombo designed the KD28 in 1967, when plastic could still signify the future. Around the same time, Japanese onsen towns began to transform under the pressures of mass tourism. New wells, hotels, and resorts continue to be built today, while other places gradually deteriorate.
I found a damaged KD28 by Joe Colombo, already missing some of its parts. I reuse what remains, bringing it back into circulation.
The Legend of the Wounded Deer and the Onsen
in progress