This durational performance focuses on the human body’s role in the affirmation of life through tending to microbial processes facilitating bioremediation. Each gesture enfolds beneficial microbial species into the depleted soil. For the performance, Bryson grew a pair of fungal shoes made from Reishi mycelium. Bryson also wears a garment constructed of many strands of white cotton rope to symbolize the embodiment of a mycelial network.

Bryson creates an entangled pathway with a shovel, digging into the compacted glass and polluted soil - which extends out from the artwork “Decay is the Beginning”. Native, cultivated fungi were added, along with compost to foster the living systems already on site. The performance culminated with the burial of the artwork “Decay is the Beginning” which holds two of the most critical fungal species for carbon storage and sequestration.

Location: Albuquerque Glass Graveyard, New Mexico