Rot + Yeast

Ferment is an emergent relationship within SHOE.BLUE: what becomes readable when Rot and Yeast meet.

Rot is the world coming apart into food for something smaller. Yeast is a fungus that has made a craft of that coming-apart: sugar into gas and alcohol, a spoil that humans learned to want. The difference is not morality. It is which breakdown we stay for.

Ferment is decay with a product. Fungus and Decay take the split; Microbe is the worker; Origin is the fact that this spoiling starts lives as well as ending them. The pairing is the thin line between ruin of a fruit and the making of a drink, which was never as thin as the words.

The Work is a way to sit with a relationship once it has become readable.