Dreaming of Soft Timelessness

Pseudopods creeping out of unfathomable darkness, the Outside injecting itself in reality. Fibre-like tentacles grabbing hold of the film frame. A pricking nowness; a return of a kind of eldritch horror one encountered in old science atlases, or natural history museums. Seen through the right magnification, even familiar things become alien. Anda’s photographs engage with this inherent Physarum polycephalum-esque state of affairs: fractal tree branches immobile in the wind, razor-sharp blades of grass, or dendrite-like shadow wiggling about in the palm of your hand. The external world as ever-clingy/clutchy; ready to attach, rather than attack, symbiotise, rather than exterminate.

Anda’s work showcases a quiet invasion by way of tracking and identifying trace instances of this hyper-extending network. Appendages slowly engulfing the planet itself - Shai-Hulud and Gog-Magog basking in the Black Sun, toasting high noon. Faut-il être mort pour atteindre â h i v e m i n d f u l n e s s ?

(Text by Cristian Drăgan)