Palimpsest images and short films that associate endless war with the rise of a supersaturated carbon atmosphere, like that of Venus. The series tries to document what I 've seen and photographed witnessing to acts of love and hope in the midst of 'bare life' . The space of the 'Tesserae' is matrixial, in the sense that Bracha Ettinger has written about it. The topologies of the images are an attempt at documentation through performance, my own and others’. -- Performance implicates my own life and witness inside the space of the image instead of just letting the image fly out into the carbon saturated atmosphere. I want to experience images as places of refuge and as doors into speculative realms of compassionate knowledge. It's not enough to record; what is it to witness? What is the trans-personal condition, the connecting, between us, the tesserae of our common love and suffering? How can we build within this as our environmental and political landscapes become increasingly alien, hostile and dangerous? How can we keep breathing? how can we make love? This series is dedicated to our sister planet. Maybe Aphrodite will arrive.