The title of Nakaba’s video (a component of a larger installation artwork) describes its own process, one of unearthing the latent and forgotten connections between person and planet, live and non-life, human and non human. At one point, we see the Earth rise above the horizon of the moon, a blue and variegated orb, floating.  The captions that accompany the video read, “No need for a separate self. I give you the word membrane,” which at once asserts unity while also pointing to the conditions of a boundary necessary to identify a unified self. The Earth is  like a cell suspended in water, both myriad and singular at the same time. — AY