dreams become daydreams
Mika Schwarz, 2024

Bismuth, aluminium, heating cord, 36 x 42 cm, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

Does the long half-life of this metal—longer than the age of the universe itself—suggest that it has borne witness to the creators in their creation? What does it mean to outlast a simulation? Has it endured multiple simulations, outliving them simply by moving so slowly? Does it therefore hold a much greater truth that is now, in this landscape, being washed into the earth by the melting snow?