Blooming & Buzzing Confusion
Collaborative exhibition with Morgan Blue, 2025
Boom Gallery 16 October - 08 November 2025.
Studio photos: Savannah van der Niet
Gallery documentation: Carli Wilson
This exhibition began with a shared curiosity: how might our individual practices converge and express within the space between them? We found a guiding metaphor in the phrase “blooming, buzzing confusion,” coined by psychologist William James to describe the newborn’s first encounter with the world—a vibrant, unfiltered sensory flood.
Collaboration, in many ways, is an allegory of this beginning again. It asks us to step outside the familiar and fold into a space shaped by both perspectives—sharing a frequency, sitting with the intelligence of another’s hands and heart, shifting attention outside of the self, into the unknown.
These works arrived after a two-year long conversation sharing archives and sketchbooks, swapping notes and references, offering drawings up for remix and reclamation and, eventually, challenging our own notions of ownership by borrowing, reworking, blending our visual language. They meet at the heart of our two practices and speak to the ways that we organise the chaos of the world through curiosity and playfulness.
Blooming And Buzzing Confusion is a celebration of sensory excess and imaginative construction—a vibrant blur of form and feeling. We hope it reflects the feverish joy of meaning-making, and the way our distinct worlds inform, challenge, and illuminate one another."
︎ See available works ︎︎︎ HERE
Morgan interviews Carla ︎︎︎ HERE
Collaboration, in many ways, is an allegory of this beginning again. It asks us to step outside the familiar and fold into a space shaped by both perspectives—sharing a frequency, sitting with the intelligence of another’s hands and heart, shifting attention outside of the self, into the unknown.
These works arrived after a two-year long conversation sharing archives and sketchbooks, swapping notes and references, offering drawings up for remix and reclamation and, eventually, challenging our own notions of ownership by borrowing, reworking, blending our visual language. They meet at the heart of our two practices and speak to the ways that we organise the chaos of the world through curiosity and playfulness.
Blooming And Buzzing Confusion is a celebration of sensory excess and imaginative construction—a vibrant blur of form and feeling. We hope it reflects the feverish joy of meaning-making, and the way our distinct worlds inform, challenge, and illuminate one another."
︎ See available works ︎︎︎ HERE
Morgan interviews Carla ︎︎︎ HERE
