Radical Meshwork

This is the basic philosophy framework of Halogen. Click through each module below to learn about the philosophy.

Halogen is empowered by the following philosophies:

  • Ubuntu
  • Black Consciousness
  • Black Theology

Why does Halogen use art? Art forces us to view differently, deeply, and critically.

If you'd like to learn more in depth about Halogen's framework, contact us!

A stack of black, oval-shaped scribbles drawn on a white, roughly oval piece of paper.Through ecological anthropology and the study of material culture, materials are named as “any form of matter of energy”.

A material is known by what it does in relation to others when treated in particular ways or placed in particular situations.

A piece of white paper cut in an irregular shape with black curved lines drawn on it, placed on a plain light background.These forms of matter of energy are proposed to be a meeting of artifacts (things shaped by human activity)

1. cities
2. systems
3. infrastructures

and externs (things independent of people like landforms and the elements)

1. mountains
2. oceans
3. the elements

A black spiral scribble drawn on an irregularly cut white piece of paper, set against a plain light background.To understand materials is to be able to tell their histories and stories in the very practice of working with them.

Symmetrically, to describe them is to use information that can only be discovered through observation and engagement with what is there. 

A white rectangular object with two sets of three vertical black lines, each set arranged in a staggered pattern. Typically, we can only grasp the ends of chains or paths known as the entry or exit, not how they are brought together or what happens in between them – the form-taking activity or “becoming of things”.

The “becoming of things” is where we learn about materials, and with the knowledge that materials are known by what they do in relation to others, we erase the source in which we simultaneously pull from and pour our curiosity and engagement into.

A hand-drawn spiral with a solid vertical line running through its center, drawn in black ink on a cut-out white background.Outcomes are now a process of correspondence, known as drawing out or bringing forth the ability to dream and cultivate ingrained in the world of becoming.

In the act of reaching outcomes, a coupling of individual life and the becoming of materials happens that run alongside the force of curiosity.

A white ceramic tile displays a black grid pattern with intersecting horizontal and vertical lines, some with small dots at the ends, on a plain background.This is called meshwork – the space where paths of movement entangle and communicate, and reciprocally and synergistically sustain on the threshold of becoming.

Halogen's meshwork is the soul. The soul is a multi-sensory ecosystem that makes a person humane. 

A horizontal row of fifteen adjacent rectangles, each a different color, arranged in a gradient sequence from green to blue.

A stack of black, oval-shaped scribbles drawn on a white, roughly oval piece of paper.Through ecological anthropology and the study of material culture, materials are named as “any form of matter of energy”.

A material is known by what it does in relation to others when treated in particular ways or placed in particular situations.

A piece of white paper cut in an irregular shape with black curved lines drawn on it, placed on a plain light background.These forms of matter of energy are proposed to be a meeting of artifacts (things shaped by human activity)

1. cities
2. systems
3. infrastructures

and externs (things independent of people like landforms and the elements)

1. mountains
2. oceans
3. the elements

A black spiral scribble drawn on an irregularly cut white piece of paper, set against a plain light background.To understand materials is to be able to tell their histories and stories in the very practice of working with them.

Symmetrically, to describe them is to use information that can only be discovered through observation and engagement with what is there. 

A white rectangular object with two sets of three vertical black lines, each set arranged in a staggered pattern. Typically, we can only grasp the ends of chains or paths known as the entry or exit, not how they are brought together or what happens in between them – the form-taking activity or “becoming of things”.

The “becoming of things” is where we learn about materials, and with the knowledge that materials are known by what they do in relation to others, we erase the source in which we simultaneously pull from and pour our curiosity and engagement into.

A hand-drawn spiral with a solid vertical line running through its center, drawn in black ink on a cut-out white background.Outcomes are now a process of correspondence, known as drawing out or bringing forth the ability to dream and cultivate ingrained in the world of becoming.

In the act of reaching outcomes, a coupling of individual life and the becoming of materials happens that run alongside the force of curiosity.

A white ceramic tile displays a black grid pattern with intersecting horizontal and vertical lines, some with small dots at the ends, on a plain background.This is called meshwork – the space where paths of movement entangle and communicate, and reciprocally and synergistically sustain on the threshold of becoming.

Halogen's meshwork is the soul. The soul is a multi-sensory ecosystem that makes a person humane. 

An oval-shaped white object with a series of horizontal black wavy lines drawn across its center.As Ubuntu is about the restoration of dignity in people, Halogen's work is to love people to life. Read the manifesto here or by clicking "Manifesto" in the menu. 

"The self only exists in relationship with others. For every version of the self there is a relationship."

An oval-shaped white object with a series of horizontal black wavy lines drawn across its center.As Ubuntu is about the restoration of dignity in people, Halogen's work is to love people to life. Read the manifesto here or by clicking "Manifesto" in the menu. 

"The self only exists in relationship with others. For every version of the self there is a relationship."