NonHuman Scripts: Techno-Ritual for Peace

NonHuman Scripts: Techno-Ritual for Peace is a sculptural installation composed of discarded circuit boards, e-waste fragments, and found tree branches, stitched together in black, white, and red threads. Echoing the palette of the Ukrainian vyshyvanka, this work transforms ecological and technological remnants into a symbolic fabric of listening, memory, and revival.

Here, each material speaks: the circuits become silent inscriptions—scripts etched by nonhuman forces and forgotten machines—bearing coded messages beyond human language. Through the act of stitching, the artist engages in a ritual of care, attempting to decipher and translate these latent voices. The branches—organic remnants—intertwine with synthetic debris, forming a speculative kinship between nature and discarded technology, living and non-living systems.

The installation explores the aftermath of both environmental degradation and war. Emerging from the context of Ukrainian identity and displacement, it becomes a personal and planetary gesture toward reconstruction and peace. The use of black (for grief and silence), white (for potential and presence), and red (for struggle and life) situates the work within a tradition of resilience, encoding cultural roots while dreaming of future coexistence.

In this techno-ritual, waste becomes wisdom, silence becomes signal, and fragmented matter becomes a call to remember, listen, and heal together.