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Sealed enclosures sustaining tropical plants are presented alongside a video of an in-ground swimming pool left to deteriorate in the wake of the 2008 recession. These parallel scenes evoke competing conditions of habitation: one tightly controlled and sustained through continual intervention, the other lost to entropy.
The title itself suggests dissolution, pointing to the instability of images, environments, and the systems that uphold them. The vivaria become symbolic agents, gesturing toward the labor required to preserve the appearance of stability within the home. Yet this effort is revealed as provisional, contingent on broader economic forces that shape what can be maintained and what is left to decay.
image soluble reflects on the domestic sphere as a site where ecological and financial crises are both absorbed and obscured. By juxtaposing constructed ecosystems with a failing built environment, the work underscores the uneven distribution of care, drawing attention to how value is assigned, sustained, or withdrawn. What emerges is a meditation on fragility of systems and images, and of the illusion that either can be held intact indefinitely.