In botany, a rhizome (/ˈraɪzoʊm/, from Ancient Greek: rhízōma “mass of roots”) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Examples of rhizomes; bamboo, strawberries, nettles, willow, mint, etc. These plants have the ability to spread without sprouting from seeds only. Whenever a piece of the root or branch is cut it has the ability to grow further. 

Based on the botanical rhizome, philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guatteri developed a philosophical model to describe theory and research that allows multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation. Opposed to an arborescent (hierarchic, tree-like) conception of knowledge, which works with dualist categories, binary choices and linear connections, the rhizome model works with planar and trans-species connections. 

While reading ‘A thousand plateaus’ I wondered if I could approach weaving as if it were a rhizome; without a linear predestine pattern, without a beginning or end, creating infinite entries and possibilities, creating an anti-structure, growing a weave instead of planning a weave. In attempt to escape the predictable and visualise ‘rhizomatic’ research. 

While weaving I kept a record of my thoughts and created a publication which can be read in multiple ways, opposed to the linear direction of traditional books.