SUMME999 emerged nearly four years ago, born not from ambition but from a quiet yearning—to connect with a world that felt increasingly distant, fragmented, and ungraspable. I immersed myself in a microscopic universe, one defined by its inaccessibility, its refusal to be fully known or possessed. It was there, in that space of quiet resistance, that I began to seek resonance—in the sense envisioned by German philosopher Hartmut Rosa.
Resonance is not about control. It is about relation—being moved, changed, and in return, responding. I began working with raw, living, or once-living materials: fragile vegetals, luminous crystals. Over time, this intuitive ritual expanded into unexpected territories—degraded plastics, sentient slime molds. These were materials marked by decay, resilience, or strange vitality. I did not shape them so much as I waited, listened, allowed.
In this practice, I found moments where the world, though fleeting and fragile, spoke back. Not loudly—but in a murmur, a shimmer, a sudden shift. SUMME999 is a document of those encounters. An attempt to remain open to the indomitable, to be touched by the untranslatable, and to respond—not with answers, but with presence.
