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The light reflected by the silk replaces the extinguished light from the burned out neon light. Coming from the drool of the larva, the silk deals with desire, attraction and speech, myths and stories spread along the Silk Roads. The production of the yarn by the silkworm – to form a cocoon, in its process of metamorphosis – becomes auto-mummification, the chrysalis being smothered with hot air to keep the thread intact. The butterfly that will not come out will never turn around artificial lights.
The bombyx mori is unwittingly the laborer of the textile industry, exploited until the very end of its life as it will never go beyond the larva stage to reach its blooming and fullness stage. Metaphor for the exploitation of the living beings until exhaustion of the bodies, as well as for the silenced voices (the drool of the larva making the silk thread as a long inaudible complaint), the lighting of the productivity meticulously momified as a relic of an old age becomes the object of a memento mori