Maria Piles

A translator in a meeting room hears not only individual voices but also how they bounce off each other: one speaker trails off, another picks up the thought, a third clarifies. Remove that interplay, and you are left with a set of monologues, and the meaning of the conversation slips away.

Soil breathes. The top layer of the earth takes in moisture after rain, then releases it into the air, much like lungs inhale and exhale. This inhalation and exhalation happens everywhere on the planet, but its rhythm is not uniform: in some places it is fast and steady, in others irregular and deep.