Excerpt from text being read during performance while it was also being shredded and fed to the worms:

'Mycologist Merlin Sheldrake writes “Composers make pieces of music. These were decomposers, who unmake pieces of life. Nothing could happen without them.”

I remind myself of this as MC starts a worm compost – a so-called vermiculture – right outside our kitchen door, acknowledging that this seems like an inevitable endeavor following many years of passionate interest in mushrooms, growing food in our small roof top garden and love of tiny animals like insects and slugs.'

Text by Louise Wolthers

Drawing by MC Coble

'Decomposing' was a performance made specifically for the release of the book 'The Exposed Eye #2' (Helga Härenstam and Anna Strand). The performance was based on the contribution that Louise Wolthers and MC Coble collaborated on for this publication.