A primordium is an organ at the earliest stages of development, a mass of cell tissue teeming with potentiality. For Sage Jenson, primordium is material at the precipice of desire, and their material of choice. Their work functions in the aesthetics of immanence; a place where machinic systems imbue each other with unending possibility, a world in motion, out of equilibrium, and pulsating with unstable flows. Each piece in Primordium, their solo exhibition, embodies this sense of becoming, an ever-unfolding actualization of the shadow future. Each piece has agents (particles) that can sense, navigate, and modify their environment. The environment acts as an arena and message board for the agents. All of the shapes and patterns are emergent behaviors within a rich parameter space. In one sense, the behavior of the agents can be viewed as a reaction to the current state of the environment; in another, the environment is a creation of the agents will upon it.  symbios.wiki

Feral File  Primordium

In the summer of 2020, Sage set out to synthesize their previous experiments into an emergent virtual organism. They developed new particle behaviors and an artisanal rendering engine. Particles imbued with homeotic potentiality shapeshift into various behavioral species, and give life to a plethora of embryonic stages. In one particular experiment, this amalgamation beget an uncanny offspring, whose particular genetic code has been unreproducible, creating an anomaly, and a treasure.

The only remaining record of this creature is a 4,749 frame video detailing the poignant gaze of its emergent eye. Embryogenesis represents a sort of <a href="https://www.marykellyartist.com/post-partum-document-1973-79">post-partum document</a> to the extinct resonances within the code. Forever trapped in a loop, lost to the symbolic order of memory. It is with a heavy heart that Sage releases their spawn into the wild, but it is the inevitable eventuality of parenthood that children escape the petri dish.