consumption as a generative ACT III – Life (place seeds in toilet paper tubes) Soil is an archive of the dead. It is dark and silent. And it is the Earth's oldest womb. Somehow, life breaks the silence. Emerging between cracks in concrete, in the crevice of caves, between the blades of a stranger, or within an art gallery in Digbeth. Where there is soil, light, warmth, and water, life can begin. When we consume, we strip the armour and allow for the intimacy of birth. Consumption is both a destructive and a generative act, but consumerism wishes us only to destroy. To be passive in our consumption. Swallowing seeds like cyanide and giving nothing to the soil. Consumerism makes us selfish lovers. Makes us believe that life is disposable, and that the things we consume could ever be separate from us.