Restoration

Restoration explores identity, inhabitance, and the intimate ecosystems that compose the self. The work involved repairing my skin’s microbiome using bacteria and yeast from a sourdough culture grown at home. Applied as a “beauty mask,” the sourdough was left to dry on my face, then removed and reintegrated into the starter to continue fermenting. This ritual was repeated over a week, culminating in the baking and consumption of bread made from the same culture—an act of exchange and coexistence between the organisms I embody and those I cultivate.
A photographic collage documenting this process was later published in Spoonzine’s Bread and Revolution issue and featured in the online exhibition Habitar la Imagen.