Alex Patrick Dyck
  • exhibitions
    • accumulator (2026)
    • 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
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  • SHOP
  • bio
  • CV
  • exhibitions
    • accumulator (2026)
    • 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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© Alex Patrick Dyck
eros born of chaos 
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EROTIKOS LOGOS

2022
Eros Born of Chaos is a love letter to the divine experience of longing. The feeling of falling in love with the unknown, with god, with the god-made earth. A dedication to the knowledge that that which we desire will always be entangled with the inability to ever possess or contain it. I am a seeker seeking, I search as an act before the divine, when I am lost I am found. When I experience loss my heart is shattered open and the veil is ripped open. In my grief I experience ecstatic bliss, a brush with the other side.

I see this project as a poem embodied. It integrates movement, moving image, sound, voice, body, the earth, text, performance, installation, ink on the page, on fibers, on the flesh. In 2022 I created several garments, dyed with botanicals and inscribed with poems invoking the aforementioned themes. I staged two performances on the north and south coasts of California, both were filmed and documented, one in which I read my texts off of the wearers of the poem garments and one solo performance in which I interacted with the natural environment of the beach, delivering love letters to the ocean. The experiences were intimate and sensual, they felt like a prayer or a spell.
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Documented by/Collaboration with 
Quorum Quorum (Santa Monica, CA)
 Micaela Go + Chris Hacker (Santa Cruz, CA)

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  • exhibitions
    • accumulator (2026)
    • 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