by Xana Robbins
Uncanny Bloom, 2025, Mixed media sculpture
Made from recycled wire, paper mache, and surrendered clothing garments.
101 x 54 x 41 cm
Artist statement
Uncanny Bloom is a contemporary mixed media sculpture, evoking themes of hybridised artificial life forms and systematic infiltration of the natural realm. Its biomorphic form emerges from the ground in a frilled vortex, encroaching upon the surrounding greenery. Primarily composed of discarded clothing and recycled materials, the form represents a grotesque futuristic outcome of cyclical fast fashion and textile overconsumption. Most of the materials are relics of microtrends spanning different eras such as abandoned trending print styles and textures. The clothing’s era identities are concealed into an eerie synthetic mass, grounding audiences in the present, pushing reflection on past fashion eras, and their environmental and economic realities. The sculpture holds itself as a symbol of fast-paced fashion trend consequence. And fundamentally, an undesired dystopic future drawn from the fear planted amongst capitalist controlled branches of our livelihoods. Travelling through time to places of uncertainty confrontation.