A myth of timeless organic unity

Trees do not grow smoothly; they accrete damage.

Here, the form says nature endures,

while the material says nature is wounded.

This is where truth begins to emerge.

The fracture as critique of the untrue

Adorno writes:”It is at such points of fracture that technological critique becomes the critique of the untrue and thus allies itself with the truth content.”

In these two works, the total affect refuses organic unity:

• The foliage is not lush; it is crusted

• The trunks are not living; they resemble stains, scars, or residues

• The ground shows through insistently

This is not technical failure in a banal sense—but it is failure of illusion (and Adorno would call that a success.)

The material says: I cannot convincingly present nature as whole.

That refusal negates the myth of timeless organic harmony.