Indigo Strata

Charcoal silt clings to your fingernails while you peel back layers of damp debris behind the cafe. Beneath the blue-stained wood, compressed sediment of discarded slips and crushed paper forms jagged rectangles that mimic geological strata. A fossilized honeybee rests in amber amidst these indigo saturations, its frozen wings caught within a rigid, predetermined architecture. In this quiet corner, the refuse reveals itself not as waste, but as a deliberate monument to everything once lost.