Watch a Bread City Slowly Decompose Over 6 Months
A few years ago, Johanna MÃ¥rtensson read an article about what our cities would look like once the human race went extinct. The question lodged in her head, and she found herself guessing at all kinds of interesting futures for decrepit metropolises. Here's what she decided would happen (slightly edited for clarity):
As a theater-set designer with future aspirations of making her own science-fiction film, Mårtensson wanted to see this process of decay in action. So the Stockholm-based artist gathered a bunch of perishable material – in this case, slabs of bread – and set about erecting an edible city in her studio. She then photographed it once a day for six months, capturing the mortification of the staff of life into a slouching, bizarrely colored mass of decay.