The installation stretches across the room like a carpet of glass fragments, woven from shards collected worldwide. Broken glass often feels ominous: shattered windows before earthquakes, shards from riots, or jagged borders meant to keep people out. Today, it can seem as though shards are everywhere, and humanity doesn’t always appear in the best light.

Based on texts by historian Rutger Bregman, “Deviation” reveals another truth: in times of crisis, people tend to move closer together, and acts of kindness grow. Negativity may be louder, but history shows that cooperation prevails. From certain angles, the processed shards catch light and divide it a hundredfold, thus turning fragments of destruction into reflections of hope.