Corn Spirit • 2025
Offerings
Series of 4 Sculptures, Ink, Acrylic and Varnish on Wood, English Yew, Walnut oil. 30 x 30 cm.
"Corn Spirit" brings to life the eerie, symbolic worlds in Porré’s work—places where time unravels and meaning lingers in strange, shifting landscapes. Blending digital processes with traditional craft, it reimagines ancient rituals, drawing on folklore, harvest rites, and the uncanny language of crop circles.
The work consists of Out of Time, a jacquard-woven tapestry suspended on a forged steel frame, and Offerings, four sculptural pieces made of turned wood, with printed 3D worldbuilding imagery and acrylic paint.
At its center dwells the Corn Spirit—an enormous corn figure. Its unsettling presence fills a vast, uninhabited digital landscape, summoning crop circles as attempts to communicate. These symbols, rooted in rural folklore and harvest traditions, evoke both age-old fertility rites and the allure of UFO-era crop formations.
Drawing from folk horror and the eerie persistence of memory, Corn Spirit revisits hallucinatory visions once induced by ergot fungus—long woven into harvest rites and cyclical famines—and reinterprets them through digital imagery. Here, the Corn Spirit’s cyclical reappearance suggests something beyond time: a force that rises and recedes, returning at critical moments in history.
The work also reflects on past ritual offerings to the land—anthropomorphic bread figures, seasonal sacrifices—once made to secure the crops’ abundance. These traditions are reimagined in a new form, where handcrafted materials and digital imagery merge, exploring how these symbols endure, evolve, and continue to haunt us through time.
Existing in the liminal spaces of Porré’s landscapes, Corn Spirit stands on the edge of myth and memory. Through bizarre scales and recurring symbols, it delves into what lingers from forgotten rituals and how the land retains them long after they are lost.
Out of Time
Tapestry, Jacquard woven fabric, forged steel, 220 x 220 cm.
