Capside Collection

The air we breathe, despite being invisible, becomes an unparalleled means of transportation in nature and in environments we do not typically consider as natural.
The concept of emptiness can be understood through the metaphor of a lack of air.
Air transports the oxygen we breathe, fragrances, sound, and even light, but it also carries life and death, organisms, and pathogens.

Air is also the space where we place things and where our cosmology exists beyond our minds.
But within this vital space, other elements of nature coexist in different forms. Water in suspension occupies a space that traditionally does not belong to it. We consume water in its liquid state, and the Earth stores it in solid form at the poles and other places on the planet to create a valuable mirror effect, protecting us from solar radiation.

Another incredible phenomenon occurs precisely in the Amazon, where water literally evaporates (evapotranspiration) from the leaves and branches of trees, forming the largest floating river on the planet—a river that literally lives in the air. This place, between heaven and earth, will be a major focus of this project, as it is a key phenomenon for the preservation of the Amazon in its entirety.

But there is another element just as necessary for life as air itself, which, of course, like everything on our planet (Gaia, Lovelock, or Bruno Latour), is hyperconnected: water.

Water is a thermometer of life on our planet. Besides being a significant part of Earth, it is also a large part of our bodies and brains. By definition, it is the most adaptable element. It becomes liquid, carries other components, freezes and solidifies, harbors life, gives life, and also has the ability to float and precipitate to the surface. It is the factory of oxygen due to its own properties but also because it houses the microorganisms necessary for the production of these vital molecules for our respiration.

We have mentioned life, and if there is anything that identifies and diversifies it, it is DNA.
DNA is the code of life, the main operator of our “matrix.” It is the generative variable of biodiversity that makes us unique and different, and that links us in an immense chain of amino acids, connecting us with the rest of the living species of GAIA.

Sometimes we think DNA is found inside our organisms, but DNA is perhaps everywhere, “everything is everywhere.”