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SQIMAGO #fla2601 – Dwelling in Transformation

SQIMAGO #fla2601 – Dwelling in Transformation

After exploring nature as an intelligent system— Funga as a silent network of connection and transformation — SQIMAGO #fla2601, January edition, opens the first chapter of 2026 and inhabits the in-between. If transformation was once observed as a natural process, it is now dwelt. Not as a conclusion, but as a threshold.


There is a space
between the end and the beginning
where matter surrenders
It decomposes
It becomes possibility

Mycelium does not produce
It transforms
It does not create from nothing
It enters matter
exposes itself
moves through it


And everything changes.

Is it chemistry?
Is it natural instinct?
An ancestral need?
A courageous form of love?
Pure desire?

It is a simple truth:
every ending
is a form of passage

The caterpillar 
does not vanish
It sheds its skin
to emerge
as butterfly

Fire
does not devour the match.
It flows through it
From the wood, smoke rises
— desire lifting into the air


Day
slips into night
Night
is not shutter
it holds

It is not the end
— but a pause
— a rest
before light shines anew

At SQIM
we believe in transformation
as a creative act


We welcome decay
not only of matter,
but of ideas
preconceptions
habits
routines
ego
automatisms
rules
trends
standards
certainties.

Because only by moving through what shatters
change can unravel

At SQIM
we believe in the magic of invisible process

Slow
Silent
Subterranean
In that which redistributes disorder
before revealing itself

Time
is not a line
It is fermentation

An accumulation of waiting
fractures
mutations
openings
rootings
encounters
collisions
silent expansions
alliances

Our symbols are unstable:
forms that dissolve
bodies that merge
matter that shifting states

Traces of a natural alchemy
that does not separate beauty
from dissolution 

A presence
in continuous mutation
Open
Vulnerable
Alive

This is an act of transformation
A refusal of the silliness
An invitation to dwell the passage

Because every ending
is not a closure
but a threshold

Nothing ends
Everything changes

Every instant 
A new beginning

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