The Doormat is an ongoing performance-based artwork in which participants from around the world send in grass from their countries and contribute to the weaving process. The collected grass is labelled and preserved in test tubes, forming a growing archive of the Earth’s surface. Next to this collection stands a small loom, where each blade of grass, rooted in its unique place of origin, is slowly woven together into a doormat.

The work exists in the global borderland between nations: it unites the world in a shared weave while reminding us of geographical and cultural distinctions. It is both global and local: each sample carries traces of a particular place, a climate, a history. By gathering and combining what grows everywhere, yet never identically, a tapestry of difference and similarity takes shape.

The work highlights two effects of globalisation: the formation of a unified culture and the longing for the specifically local. It emphasises our commonality (everyone contributes grass from where they are), while also acknowledging our differences (distinct grass species, climates, and cultural narratives).

The doormat, an everyday object, becomes here a symbol of a threshold: between inside and outside, between self and other, between what we know and what we have yet to understand. In both its physical and conceptual form, the work encourages us to cross boundaries – geographical, mental, and political.

Collecting grass from all over the world is a slow act. It requires participation, patience, and trust. It carries within it a fundamental uncertainty: Will the world ever become complete? Will we ever be able to weave ourselves together?

The Doormat is a work about movement, community, and the desire to listen to the earth beneath our feet. It is a weave of place-based memory, a textile archive in constant transformation. It promises no fixed future, but offers a space where we may, together, step into the unknown.