Compost Spire is an evolving installation and research project exploring how we relate to organic waste, grief, and decay. These works are photographed, planted, built, and buried and are both studies and components of that larger inquiry. They serve as prototypes, gestures, and slow-burning rituals pointing toward a future where decomposition is understood as care.

This work explores living systems: compost piles, microbial heat, layered decay. These installations are not static forms but slow-moving performances of transformation. They shift, slump, sprout, and disappear. The camera only ever catches a sliver: a single breath in a long cycle of return.

To compost is to time travel. It asks us to quicken decay while also slowing down enough to notice it. It’s a method of staying with the breakdown. Each piece is a living collaboration with microbes, mycelium, and letting go. Waste becomes soil, decay becomes care, grief and promise are the primary ingredients.

I photograph these works not to preserve them, but to honor a moment inside a larger alchemy. It is a pulse, a gesture, a glimpse of something ongoing—how we imagine waste as a resource and a way to repair.

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