Compost Spire
Ongoing work
To compost is to time travel: it quickens decay while asking us to slow down enough to notice. Waste becomes soil; decomposition becomes resistance to sanitized speed and endless productivity. Grief and promise work hand in hand.
The Compost Spire explores compost as medium; organic matter, inoculated bio-char, microbial heat, layered decay. What you see here are prototypes and studies of larger, living sculptures where placing compost in a non-natural setting allows the viewer to consider discarded matter as material. Compost Spire III debuted in October 2025 at 465 Gallery in San Francisco.
These spires are slow-motion rituals, pointing toward a future where decomposition is understood as care. They shift, slump, sprout, and disappear. They heal soil, hold water, and resist permanence. The camera can only ever glimpse these slow performances of transformation.
The work asks us to reimagine waste as a resource for repair. It opens a portal to a future where compost is woven into everyday life, recognized as both the practical and the artistic.
