Artistic decoration commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark for EU Council Building during the Danish Presidency of the EU Council. 

In a speculative landscape, a trail of ants carries various findings from the technosphere. The work explores themes of collective intelligence, emergent behaviour, and network systems in which coordination arises through local interaction rather than hierarchy.

In ant colonies, no central figure directs the group. The queen sustains the colony, but does not lead it. A single ant may appear simple, dependent on its antennae to communicate and navigate on a local scale. Together, however, ants generate complex structures and behaviours: systems that evolve without central control, forming a superorganism.

Only one ant needs to stray from the trail to discover new food; otherwise, the colony would return to the same spot and risk starvation. A single local shift can redirect the entire network. Through their sensitive antennae, ants build community one interaction at a time.

Positioned within a space of power, this work is both a mirror and a prompt. Can we rethink the systems we have built, and those we have yet to imagine? It is through empathy, rather than control, that we might begin to sense what comes next.