These sunglasses and this fire clay crab are modest tributes to the Carcinization process as a symbolic way to take time to think about why my inner world has, in repeated occasions, attempted to evolve into specific directions over the years but it didn’t quite happen, over and over again. There is something about wearing them that provides the space to dive deeper into these insistent archetypes that drag us into what they think its best for our being.

I love the idea of Carcinization, a theory that explains that for some mystical and unexplainable reason evolution has had many attempts to make other sea creatures evolve into crabs too. There is an insistence in the ocean that pushes exoskeletons to manifest over and over again. This is my tribute to this theory I guess: