Alex Patrick Dyck
  • exhibitions
    • somewhere, elsewhere (2026)
    • safe keeping (2025)
    • beyond the veil (2025)
    • splits & ruptures (2025)
    • chimaera (2025)
    • edgewalkers (2024)
    • piercing the veil (2024)
    • perpetual chrysalis (2024)
    • DATURA (2023-24)
    • to an unknown god (2023)
    • afield (2023)
    • palimpsest (2023)
    • BLISS (2022)
    • eros born of chaos (2022)
    • crayzee quilt (2019)
    • frog man (2019)
    • anima sola (2018)
    • eroticism & the grotesque (2018)
    • captive (2017)
    • domestic roleplay (2017)
    • rose & the lion (2017)
    • sweet~bitter summer lover (2015)
    • daisy~chained (2015)
  • group shows + projects
    • group shows (2009-2023)
    • noodle beaches (2012-2016)
    • the handless maiden (2017)
    • your deepest thirst (2016)
    • epitaph for magdalen (2016)
  • events
  • publications
  • performance
  • pollywog press
  • tattoo spells
  • yokosnoopy
  • workshops
  • design
  • kupu kupu
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  • bio
  • CV
  • exhibitions
    • somewhere, elsewhere (2026)
    • safe keeping (2025)
    • beyond the veil (2025)
    • splits & ruptures (2025)
    • chimaera (2025)
    • edgewalkers (2024)
    • piercing the veil (2024)
    • perpetual chrysalis (2024)
    • DATURA (2023-24)
    • to an unknown god (2023)
    • afield (2023)
    • palimpsest (2023)
    • BLISS (2022)
    • eros born of chaos (2022)
    • crayzee quilt (2019)
    • frog man (2019)
    • anima sola (2018)
    • eroticism & the grotesque (2018)
    • captive (2017)
    • domestic roleplay (2017)
    • rose & the lion (2017)
    • sweet~bitter summer lover (2015)
    • daisy~chained (2015)
  • group shows + projects
    • group shows (2009-2023)
    • noodle beaches (2012-2016)
    • the handless maiden (2017)
    • your deepest thirst (2016)
    • epitaph for magdalen (2016)
  • events
  • publications
  • performance
  • pollywog press
  • tattoo spells
  • yokosnoopy
  • workshops
  • design
  • kupu kupu
  • instagram
  • contact
  • SHOP
  • bio
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© Alex Patrick Dyck

chimaera (becoming invasive)

A ritual enacting a bodily state of becoming invasive species — a commingling of handmade knotweed and abaca paper skins, altar-making, light moving through leaf and smoke, a poem falling out of the book, and grief, ever-present grief.

The body becomes a site of resilience, adaptation, and entanglement with land. Plant skins, worn during performance, are later assembled into a spectral sculptural form: an afterimage of the body and its gestures, a relic of the ritual.​
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​2025

  • exhibitions
    • somewhere, elsewhere (2026)
    • safe keeping (2025)
    • beyond the veil (2025)
    • splits & ruptures (2025)
    • chimaera (2025)
    • edgewalkers (2024)
    • piercing the veil (2024)
    • perpetual chrysalis (2024)
    • DATURA (2023-24)
    • to an unknown god (2023)
    • afield (2023)
    • palimpsest (2023)
    • BLISS (2022)
    • eros born of chaos (2022)
    • crayzee quilt (2019)
    • frog man (2019)
    • anima sola (2018)
    • eroticism & the grotesque (2018)
    • captive (2017)
    • domestic roleplay (2017)
    • rose & the lion (2017)
    • sweet~bitter summer lover (2015)
    • daisy~chained (2015)
  • group shows + projects
    • group shows (2009-2023)
    • noodle beaches (2012-2016)
    • the handless maiden (2017)
    • your deepest thirst (2016)
    • epitaph for magdalen (2016)
  • events
  • publications
  • performance
  • pollywog press
  • tattoo spells
  • yokosnoopy
  • workshops
  • design
  • kupu kupu
  • instagram
  • contact
  • SHOP
  • bio
  • CV