SARMENTOSA

This is the longest-lived earring in the collection. Alectoria sarmentosa, a lichen capable of surviving the most extreme conditions you could ever imagine. Outer space? A nuclear explosion? The ocean floor? Liquid nitrogen? There you’ll find it, without flinching, with its indestructible layers of tissue. Although this coating isn’t its only survival strategy. Because if you freeze it and warm it up again, it will also come back to this world without any problem. In other words, whether you like it or not, there’s no way to get rid of it. Ask its elderly colleagues in Lapland, many of whom are over nine thousand years old…