Universe in miniature: WELLSPRING

March 2025

Upper left: Collage on paper, Upper right: Film photograph, cenote in Mexico. Lower left: Film photograph, cenote in Mexico. Lower Right: Screenshot of a Youtube video about how to make a miniature lake for your train set.

During the day I met a woman with long manicured fingernails with green nail art that looked like ‘an entire universe to itself’. I’ve been thinking a lot about conditions for growth - fecundity and foundation, chaos and disorganization, and order architecting itself from that space. I had a dream that I looked down at my pillow, and a little pool of water had formed on it, I wondered the source - and it was, not as I’d assumed - from above, but as I moved the pillow aside I saw a little spring - fully formed and bubbling up from deeper down - sourcing a little garden of mosses and algae. A world all unto itself.

small bodies of water contained with edges