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Saprophyte: An Analogue of Decay
Alaa Misto
Saprophyte: An Analogue of Decay
Alaa Misto

How can architecture materialize the absurdity of what is, what has been, and what is to be?


The created state attempts a constant mimicry of nothingness, a recorder that preserves, conceives, and materializes the past as a causal sequence of events leading up to an oblivious present.
It remains though, that its final state is not but a myth. Dissociative as it is, it preserves memory to promote memory-lessness, distorting instead of restoring, and self-generating in infinite variations. History then is mere data for its growth. Its presence is not but a coming to be through not being.