Series of photos made for Broccoli Magazine #19

Perfect, stable, eternal, immutable things are usually non-living things in nature. Certainly these are things that do not evolve. Repeating an evolutionary process twice would never get the same result. This project is my love note to decay, to the inevitable breakdown intrinsic to every cell, and to the ambiguous privilege of organic matter to decompose, regenerate and create more life. Fungi eat rocks, plants soak up sunlight and somehow this is exactly what needs to happen for me to be alive. This shared potential for new growth feels significant. Moving away from the permanence of minerals, in exchange for decay and life, is a remarkable evolutionary trade-off.

Set design: Valentina Micól