Sakura

SAKURA, Singer Laren, 2020
steel, foam, plastic.

Created for the large window of the Singer Museum, this work introduces a vivid pink presence into the architectural space. Its colour evokes seasonal renewal and the surge of growth associated with spring. Forms resembling roots or tentacles extend across ceilings, floors, windows, and stairways, slipping between interior and exterior as if testing the building’s limits.

The sculpture is wrapped in agricultural plastic used to seal hay bales. This translucent film acts as an artificial membrane—both protective and suffocating—suggesting the tension between cultivation and control. Beneath this synthetic skin, the structure appears to pulse and expand.

The work reflects on the regulated landscape of an industrialised environment, where nature is managed, contained, and engineered. Here, that order loosens. Organic shapes advance through the constructed setting, unsettling its rigidity and hinting at a quiet takeover.

With its hybrid materials and unfamiliar anatomy, the form suggests a speculative organism, as if drawn from a near-future ecosystem where technology and biology have merged.

Hovering between attraction and discomfort, the forms allude to the sensual force of biological processes—sprouting, unfurling, burrowing. The atmosphere is charged, fertile, and slightly excessive, capturing the intensity of a world on the verge of transformation.