In Never Alone * Lemon Protocols, lemons—charged through intimate gesture—bruise, acidify, and permeate space; scent displaces form as architecture, generating a shared atmospheric field where proximity becomes unavoidable. Conversely, MUDAS * From Leaf to Scent * Installations of Oxidation in Mexico ^ Ritual mobilises banana and maize leaves as oxidising membranes whose chromatic shift from chlorophyll green to metallic ochre enacts Socioplastic Ecdysis, a shedding that renders time visible and breathable. Developmentally, both series refuse preservation: lemons collapse into aromatic residue; leaves blacken into humid exhalation. Yet this refusal is strategic, anticipating the postdigital concern with semantic erosion by demonstrating that controlled decomposition—Proteolytic Transmutation—can paradoxically harden relational bonds. The case synthesis clarifies their complementarity: Lemon Protocols condense affect into a concentrated citrus horizon, ritualising Mediterranean bitterness-sweetness; MUDAS disperses across Mexican geographies, embedding oxidation within itinerant domestic and communal sites. Together they articulate a sovereign pedagogy of impermanence wherein scent supersedes spectacle and witnessing replaces possession. In conclusion, this metabolic diptych affirms that structured decay is not entropy but calibrated continuity: by surrendering material stability, both works secure Epistemic Persistence through shared breath, temporal witnessing, and ritualised transformation.
Lloveras, A. (2026) ‘Never Alone * Lemon Protocols’, 14 January. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/never-alone-lemon-protocols.html
Lloveras, A. (2026) ‘MUDAS * From Leaf to Scent * Installations of Oxidation in Mexico ^ Ritual’, 17 January. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/mudas-from-leaf-to-scent-installations.html
