M.V. Baks

Alter modernism - where technology meets nature

Metamelei

Metamelei is a parallel world I visit through Flow drawing. My artwork documents its landscapes, rituals, and the shifting relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.

Metamelei is a parallel world I can visit through Flow drawing. It is not a dream and not a fantasy, but a place with its own logic, history, and landscape. It exists alongside our world as a layer that becomes visible only when I open myself to it. My drawings are the documents I bring back.


In Metamelei, society lives directly beside nature — Mother Nature, far older and stronger than humanity. After the rise of the virus and the uncontrolled surge of root growth, the inhabitants had to rebuild their city: between trees, beneath ancient ruins, across market squares and temples where nature and technology intertwine and coexist. Everything is in motion. Nothing is finished. Yet everything is shaped through mutual respect.


My role is simple: I observe, I listen, and I draw. I follow the roots pushing through walls, the buildings adapting to a changing world, and the rituals people use to hold on to their sense of direction. What I draw is not symbolism added afterwards — it is documentation. I bring back what I encounter there, hoping we can learn from it and shape a better world.


The world of Metamelei feels familiar at times and entirely strange at others. It exists somewhere between future and memory: recognizable, yet subtly shifted. In my work, Metamelei becomes a mirror to our own society — showing how we build, how we relate to nature and technology, and what we risk losing if we stop paying attention.

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Misses Devana

Graphite triptych on wood (122 × 61 cm) depicting root-formed human figures in Metamelei, exploring feminine nature, transformation and interrupted life.
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Genesis

The work unfolds across multiple panels, where drawings of wild-growing roots and tendrils spread without restraint. Nature is not depicted as harmonious or decorative, but as an unstoppable force — reclaiming, infiltrating, and overtaking what once ...
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