Personal definition: Decay isn’t just an end, it’s a form of witnessing. It holds traces of the past, bears the weight of the present, and gestures toward the future. To decay is to endure, to resist erasure, but also to accept its eventual outcome. To decay is not to fail, but to embrace. It becomes a quiet act of defiance, offering hope to whatever might emerge.
Decay is also a function that affects something: material, sound, object, human. It is in relation with time, it transforms, is experienced, is the in-between, it creates space.