A

A (2026)

A living assemblage of moss, tillandsia, cardboard, string, and salvaged paper fragments, A extends ReLeaf’s ethos of Adaptive Reuse—transforming discarded materials into new forms of value, merging creativity with sustainability. The piece is both fragile and resilient, shifting slowly as its organic components grow, dry, and settle into one another.

Among the elements is a small Rocky Horror Picture Show sticker, found during a walk through Pease Park with Emma Ransome, now folded into the work like a fossilized laugh in the soil of memory.

The composition also includes a QR code leading to a donation link for Ransome’s Licensed Massage Therapy practice—a gesture of Symbiosis that threads care, ecology, and mutual support into a single living surface.

Each viewing of A is different: humidity changes its texture; gravity adjusts its balance. In this way, the work resists finality. It is, as Benton describes, “a patient conversation between decay and renewal”—a small Ancestral Signal pulsing through the present moment.