All that you touch
You Change
All that you Change
Changes You
The only lasting truth Is Change.
Earthseed, the religion and eventual community founded by the novel’s protagonist, Lauren Olamina, proclaims the inevitability of change and humankind’s capacity to adapt. Tossin’s sculpture, a composite of synthetic and organic materials, underscores our agency in determining Earth’s ecological future, manifesting in their very materiality the central themes of change – of malleability and plasticity. The prominently reddish hues of the sculpture’s sedimentary strata allude to Earthseed’s destiny, “to take root among the stars,” but also Olamina’s prescient description of Mars as “too close within the reach of the people who’ve made such a hell of life here on Earth.”