Dormant Life-force: Seeds of Life
Is the potential for life just as valuable as life itself? Does the energy in a seed, with the potential to become a full and complex organism that could provide energy for other beings, exist only as that energy, or does a life-form that it could become make it of more value?
Macro Pumpkin Seed, 2017. Vandyke brown print.
What constitutes life? Does a dormant seed not seem to exist in a strange world of not quite life, but definitely not dead? On the cusp of some threshold, the seed has potential to become an entire life-force, a micro-biome for other organisms, become the food that feed and maintains a whole world, and to die and carry on that energy it harnessed to other organism.
The spark in the seed is a manifestation of creation, an enigma we as mankind may never understand the purpose of or the ultimate cause of it.
Why do we put more value in a mammal than a plant, when one produces, while the other only temporarily provides? If seeds were not so dependable, would we value other forms of life more, or would the seeds become of more intrinsic value?
Macro Gourd Seed, 2017. Vandyke brown print.
The exchange of energy is a cycle that can connect many different forms of organisms, but does the potential to provide or create more of something mean it should be more significant or be taken less for granted?
Macro Bean-sprout, 2017. Digital Photograph
A healthy environment might be all that is needed, a symbiotic relationship between surrounding and individual may be all that matters to life...so long as it is sustained, the potential for the seed remains, and the value of life can be manifested.