#Seeds

A seed bank is ostensibly a cryogenic vault where humanity’s hopes for the future are stored in the form of tiny, frozen plant embryos, yet in practice remains an airtight, seldom opened mausoleum. Deserts eating up farmland, floods washing away villages, and freak weather events are all distilled into labeled vials of hope. Farmers and scientists intone the grandiloquent phrase Civilization’s backup while consigning seeds to chilly imprisonment. Outside, the world swelters under heatwaves and storms, cradled in the sweet delusion that these seeds might someday come to the rescue. In the end, no one knows whether the seed bank’s doors will ever open or if that day belongs to history or myth.