WHAT IF A SOCIETY COULD ELIMINATE SUFFERING BY REMOVING THE ABILITY TO EXPERIENCE IT?

What would it build? What would it cost?

In a system where behavior is regulated at the biological level, one worker begins to encounter failures that cannot be explained or contained. Told in two voices, one intimate, one institutional, The Arcolith begins as a story about compliance written into the body, and the feeling that breaks through.

Connection is the breach.

A planned three-part work. One continuous narrative intended to be read in sequence. Book II currently in development.

As the structure shows strain, the question is no longer whether it can be maintained, but what remains when it is no longer believed.