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metamorphosis - kaleidoscope - autopoiesis
Nothing exists outside of cycles. Every beginning carries the outline of an ending, and every end opens into something else. This project moves along that quiet loop—where decay becomes origin, and what fades becomes a starting point. More than a menu, it holds a sequence of moments: impressions, textures, and emotional residues. Each drink is a fragment of that story. Each ingredient, a voice of its own. Like any form of making, it offers a way of speaking—without explanation, without names. Just presence, shaped through matter and time.
PHRASE 01 - metamorphosis
This season draws inspiration from beginnings. Earth and water — two primal elements — form the core. One drink embodies water: immersive, still, and deep. The other reflects earth: dry, dense, and grounding. Not opposites, but held in quiet balance.
Each drink is designed to capture a different shape of origin — blurred, unfinished, undefined. Ingredients are chosen not just for flavor, but to evoke sensation: floating, weighty, cold, warm, or musty. Each one holds a moment when something begins to shift — quietly, before it finds its form.
This season draws inspiration from beginnings. Earth and water — two primal elements — form the core. One drink embodies water: immersive, still, and deep. The other reflects earth: dry, dense, and grounding. Not opposites, but held in quiet balance.
Each drink is designed to capture a different shape of origin — blurred, unfinished, undefined. Ingredients are chosen not just for flavor, but to evoke sensation: floating, weighty, cold, warm, or musty. Each one holds a moment when something begins to shift — quietly, before it finds its form.
PHRASE 02 - kaleidoscope
If origin is material, then living is form. Phrase 2 enters the stage of growth — where shapes expand, mutate, and assert themselves. There are no fixed outlines, no mirrored structures. Like a kaleidoscope, every slight shift generates a new composition: unrepeatable, unpredictable.
From that spirit, metaphorical images of fish, flowers, and plants are used to reflect the richness and variety of life. There is blooming. There is movement. There is also suffocation. One fish rises into open water, another is held down in the shallows. Under the same conditions, each form unfolds differently — freely or restrained, but always in its own truth.
If origin is material, then living is form. Phrase 2 enters the stage of growth — where shapes expand, mutate, and assert themselves. There are no fixed outlines, no mirrored structures. Like a kaleidoscope, every slight shift generates a new composition: unrepeatable, unpredictable.
From that spirit, metaphorical images of fish, flowers, and plants are used to reflect the richness and variety of life. There is blooming. There is movement. There is also suffocation. One fish rises into open water, another is held down in the shallows. Under the same conditions, each form unfolds differently — freely or restrained, but always in its own truth.
PHRASE 03 - autopoiesis
The final phase closes the circle — where everything that once began returns, in a different shape. If life expands outward, then endings pull inward. Not to disappear, but to reform. Nothing truly stops. Signs of rot or breakdown are just another stage of transformation.
In this phase, ingredients from the previous two seasons are brought back — not to repeat, but to continue. They return in new forms and states, shaped by fermentation, controlled oxidation, or slow change over time. It's a way of showing that nothing is ever truly separate — everything moves within the same loop.
Fermentation, decay, rust — these aren’t flaws. They’re physical traces of time passing, and how things evolve. There’s no need to impress. This phase simply closes the cycle. And maybe that’s why it lingers the longest.
In this phase, ingredients from the previous two seasons are brought back — not to repeat, but to continue. They return in new forms and states, shaped by fermentation, controlled oxidation, or slow change over time. It's a way of showing that nothing is ever truly separate — everything moves within the same loop.
Fermentation, decay, rust — these aren’t flaws. They’re physical traces of time passing, and how things evolve. There’s no need to impress. This phase simply closes the cycle. And maybe that’s why it lingers the longest.