AEONIUM (excerpt)

Five plant-nursery employees speak about a mysterious disaster, a “terrible event”. They respond successively to questions, while cultivating a plant of the genus Aeonium.  5 persons are trying to understand what was that which happened to them. They try to exist again. They try to explain the unexplainable. Aeonium evokes a suspended condition between movement and stasis, speech and silence, deterioration and regeneration, discontent and anticipation, monotony and variation. It depicts a world hermetically closed and protected from external conditions, yet transparent and susceptible to change.