Existence 36

This quietly surreal assemblage reads like a portable habitat—part shelter, part specimen—where stacked, bark-like strata suggest a home constructed from time, compression, and patient accretion. The warm, earthen palette and meticulous hatchwork lend the object a tactile gravity, while vines that pierce the roof and rootlets that spill downward collapse the boundary between architecture and organism. A small butterfly alighting at the edge becomes a delicate counterweight to the structure’s mass, proposing transformation not as escape but as coexistence—life insisting on entry, and the built world learning to breathe. In its vertical pull from root to roof, the piece becomes an allegory of resilience: growth threading through constraint, memory sedimented into form.