STERILISED PSYCHE

We have become increasingly intolerant of life behaving like life.

Moisture becomes damage.

Fungi become contamination.

Roots become structural threats.

Insects become infestations.

Decay becomes failure.

We seal, disinfect, fumigate, chlorinate and preserve.

We remove what grows without permission.

Yet we continue to reproduce its image.

Grass without soil.

Water without microorganisms.

Green without growth.

A dog pisses onto an imitation ecosystem.

Nothing consumes it.

Nothing metabolises it.

Nothing grows from it.

It has been designed not to rot.

But rot is not a defect in nature.

Rot is one of the systems by which nature works.

Perhaps this is the strange condition we have created:

We desire nature most when it no longer behaves naturally.

We keep the surface and remove the process.

We keep the image and remove the organism.

We keep life at a distance, then manufacture its likeness around us.

STERILISED PSYCHE begins here.

With the desire to make the living world clean, stable and obedient.

And with the question of what kinds of life might eventually emerge from the environments we have made in its place.