Rachel Sussman has been engaged in looking at ancient organisms who have withstood the test of time, searching for a beauty that emerges from the cracks of time, conducting a research that oscillates between micro and macrocosm, art, science, and philosophy. This image is a photograph, hand-painted with enamel and metallic dust, a study, part of the series Sidewalk Kintsukuroi that extends the Japanese tradition to restore ceramic with golds, to the streets. Beauty emerges exactly within the space of time erosion from an alchemic process.