houseplant
A houseplant is a silent green statue performing “comfort” in the corner of a room. This trapped life form abandons its neglectful caretaker with the merciless sentence of withering. People simultaneously use it as a prompt for self-reflection and as a prop for self-fashioning. Indoctrinated by the myth that green equals solace, residents build a fragile codependency on the plant’s heedless whims. In the end, only withered leaves and regrets remain.