Saúl Alonso-Monsalve

Deep inside a mountain, under layers of rock, lies a germanium crystal the size of a fist. It waits for a rarest of events: an atomic decay that happens once in billions of years. But inside the crystal, something is always ticking — cosmic rays, traces of radioactivity, thermal noise.

A photographer shoots a night forest, trying to catch fireflies in the frame. The flashes are rare and faint, while around there's the noise of wind and distant lights.