Artist Spotlight: Salma Arastu (USA)

Unseen Vistas Beneath Our Feet

Inspired by subterranean landscapes—soil, roots, mineral traces, and time, this piece explores what lies beneath our daily passage: fragile, interconnected, and alive.

The surface unfolds like a living map, evoking mycelial networks and microbial flows—threads of exchange that carry nutrients, memory, and communication across unseen territories. These tangled lines suggest cooperation rather than hierarchy, a quiet intelligence pulsing below ground, sustaining life through constant movement and reciprocity.

I am increasingly drawn to what exists below visibility — the hidden networks that sustain us, the silent intelligence of soil.

In this work, I see resilience. Fragility. Continuity.

The earth remembers. And it connects.