OOLOI FLORA - 2026

Lo is not built; it is grown. It begins as a seed,recognises set into the soil of a recovering Earth, and from there it spreads as a single living body, part plant and part animal, fully neither. What looks at first like a settlement of low walls and structures is really the surface of one continuous creature: rooted, breathing, and slowly enlarging year after year.

Its substance is warm and faintly yielding to the touch, closer to flesh or living bark than to stone or cut wood. Lo feeds itself the way a plant does, drawing on sunlight and the ground, but it also takes in and breaks down matter, growing denser and more complex as it ages.

For the people who live inside it, Lo is provider as much as shelter. It produces food directly from its own body, and it shapes rooms, shade, and resting places out of itself as they are needed. In its limited, vegetal-animal way, Lo is aware of the lives it carries.

Inspired by Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy (1987–1989).