pile

I had this idea of being a doctor breathing new life into older clothes or things I would find at the bottom of a pile, resurrecting them.

It starts with a pile of soy pulp, which is wrapped in banana leaves and sprinkled with the spores of a fungus called Neurospora intermedia.

One discarded pile of oat pulp or moldy loaf of bread, at a time.

Box springs lay heaped in a pile beneath a folding camp bed, freed by the flames.

This is how Lili Anolik found herself digging through the mildewed trash pile of Eve Babitz’s personal effects after her death in late 2021.