My name is Somari. I'm a Ukrainian artist based in Berlin, and for the past 8 years I've been building a world.

This is a story about how, in the distant future, in a parallel universe, plants have grown metal parts to survive the spread of technogenic civilization. Fermion — the city at its center — grows vertically and houses a society that controls more than it admits.

The questions underneath it are ones I keep returning to: what happens when civilization becomes so good at protecting itself from nature that it forgets it belongs to it? What is the difference between a living thing and an AI that perfectly imitates one? And what does it mean to exist in a system that was never designed with you in mind?

These ideas and characters appeared across murals, canvases, sculptures, and streets over the years — and from the very beginning, I knew they all belonged to the same place.

This universe has its own geography, inhabitants, rules, and contradictions. And a story with a town ...