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Maya, I found complexity with which you approach your subject fascinating. The web of relations that have been animated to construct the images for The Borderer (which are so compelling) is stuggering.

I was surprised how reading your text and looking at your images made me immediately think of the book Parallel Minds by Laura Tripaldi (https://www.urbanomic.com/book/parallel-minds/). She talks about animals, insects and other nonhuman bodies producing materials such as cobwebs and similar. Spider web example spoke to me especially. Tripaldi explains how the material quality of a cobweb is the result of environmental coditions spiders find thesemselves within. This body and environment relation is directly responsible for the chemical composition of a spiders' web which means that while cobwebs are found everywhere they are not always the same. What was fascinating there for me is the capacity of matter to change on the one hand, and on the other matter's opennes to change influenced by environmental conditions. This production by moulding and composing molecules that happens between the body and environment is not just fascinating but also hopeful and promising while disturbing too. I find myself having similar response to your work here. Looking forward to engaging more with it.