Ashes began in collapse. In heat. In fragmentation.

Accretion of Becoming moves beyond that initial burn. Here, the language of destruction transforms into the physics of formation. Layer by layer, the surface builds through pressure and adhesion. What appears turbulent from a distance resolves, on closer view, into strata. Material gathers and density increases.

The title references accretion, the process by which matter accumulates under gravitational pull. Dust becomes mass. Mass becomes body. This piece holds that same principle. Experience, memory, rupture, all compress into something newly coherent.

The emotional register remains high. There is still evidence of strain within the surface. But the strain is productive. The work does not linger in agony. It converts it.

Ashes expands here from terrestrial myth into cosmic myth. Fire becomes formation and collapse becomes structure. Becoming is no longer reactive, it’s directional.