l:h=n

The video work l:h=n takes its title from a mathematical formula developed by Polish avant-garde artists Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński, used to structure their compositions. In this piece, delicate plants are meticulously crafted from thin threads and arranged within a grid governed by the titular ratio. This process distorts their original shapes, placing them in bizarre and unnatural positions.

The work l:h=n parallels how we frame nature—visually or conceptually—through systems like the golden ratio, imposing order on its spontaneity. It reflects on our need to control and aestheticize nature, and the anxiety that arises from its resistance. This tension between admiration for nature’s beauty and fear of its unstoppable vitality is symbolized in the distortion of plants within the grid, where cultivation and control provoke unease as spontaneity is inevitably restrained.