My embroidered gown serves as a future artifact, microcosm, and topographic map, which chronicles the tragedy of a humanity taken back by the elements. Like a patient who suffered from disease of the heart, this species suffered from a ‘chronic hamartia’; greed. Thus, the humanity infected its planet through erosion and pollution, before its planet infected it back through organic diseases (beginning with COVID19, inter alia). These budded and mutated from the burnt rims of the species’ existence until its demise.
Eventually, the legacies of our own species will be patched onto some lifeless souvenir hanging in the depths of Earth’s closet: a trophy of its survival from “Human beings… a cancer of this planet” (Agent Smith, The Matrix).