Woodwose

2024

Japanese washi paper yarn
Wood-based viscose

165 x 245 cm
65 x 96½ in.


The Woodwose is a figure from medieval European tradition — a wild man of the forest, covered in leaves and branches, existing at the boundary between the human world and the natural one. Neither fully one nor the other.

Here the figure and the forest are built from the same visual system. The body doesn't emerge from the pattern — it is the pattern. Two eyes hold the centre, staring outward. Everything else keeps shifting.