LEEK! LEEK!

Gelbes Haus Art Residency, Switzerland, Nov '25- Jan '26

Leek! Leek! Developed during a three-month residency at Gelbes Haus in Lucerne. This body of work investigates walking as a method of selection and translation.

Through daily walks, infrastructural markings, devotional traces, and fragments of language encountered in public space were selected and re-inscribed by hand. Each embroidered unit functions as a comparable element within a growing system. Accumulation and display became central concerns. The works were presented on modular structures found in the residency space. Proximity, repetition, and ordering shaped the installation. Walking becomes spatial archive.

Constructed Alphabet

This alphabet translates street markings into a provisional script. Referencing the structure of the Greek alphabet, it proposes an alternative system of legibility derived from infrastructure. The work does not decode the city but reorganises its signs. Language emerges from maintenance, labour, and overlooked traces. The alphabet operates as a minor writing system — visible yet unstable.

Goals for Life

This participatory branch introduced shared selection. Participants chose embroidered symbols and articulated their own interpretations. Identical forms circulated among different individuals. Meaning moves horizontally. Interpretation remains open.