Roy Vessil |~~~~~~~~~| Roy Cannon-Berg

 A Hollow Body Seeks A Home (2019)

Symbiosis (noun), | simbīˈōsəs,ˌsimbēˈōsəs |

Biology, interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.

Host (noun), | Hōst |

2 Biology, an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives. • (also host cell) a living cell in which a virus multiplies.

Death in human society is often treated as a negative, the end of a conscious life with nothing left but the expectation of going “to the great beyond” and put six feet beneath the ground. For nature, it is natural for a plant to be reconstituted into energy for the next life to come and grow, like reincarnation. Some plants solely survive off of an unwritten agreement: a symbiosis. These relationships (human/plantae) can support one another, lending a helping hand step by step as one grows and the other supplies; while opposite on the spectrum, a parasite may only use their host for it’s own survival. No matter how significant or peripheral, these relationships are essential for the progression and preservation of a species. As this world becomes increasingly more challenging, its necessary for the evolution of future symbioses to occur and make a stronger breed of life— for humans and plantae alike.

This is an ode to a beautiful death, an ode to the relationships we make between one other, an appreciation of the positive disintegration and what blossoms between these host cells.