Bark drawings, 29x42cm, Drawing on paper, 2025

In this work, I drew the same piece of bark every day for one month. What changed was the technique (for instance pencil, felt-tip pen, watercolor, or gold pen) and the methodology (e.g. drawing time, only using straight lines, blind drawing, single line drawing, contour drawing). Even though it is the same piece of bark, it looks different in each drawing, showing that the same subject can appear very different depending on the methodology and technique.

This experience can be connected to decentralized thinking, particularly Walter D. Mignolo’s concept of epistemic disobedience (2011). In his critique of Eurocentric universalism, Mignolo calls for thinking in terms of pluriverses, which is the recognition of diverse, equally valid perspectives. This pluriverse becomes evident in my work: the bark does not appear as a fixed object, but as an image that is recreated, with each method giving rise to a different presence. This reveals that there can be no hierarchical ordering of viewpoints, but rather a simultaneous coexistence of ways of seeing, all of which are legitimate.