This is a plant as performance. The metal rods approximate the silhouette of a living shrub, offering just enough formal cues for recognition. Theatricality emerges in that gap between material and appearance: the object asks to be read as “plant,” even as its industrial composition refuses that identity. Weathering intensifies this effect. Rust operates like a patina of time, simulating a kind of life cycle. If what is staged here is not growth, then it is the signs of growth.