'The Hidden Life of Crystals' explores how complexity arises when a simple structural unit meets a changing environment, and how this encounter is inscribed into material form. Each crystal begins from a repeating molecular motif, yet its form evolves through constant response to subtle shifts in temperature, concentration, and surface, so that form becomes inseparable from the conditions that shape it.

Viewed through polarized light microscopy, these transformations appear as fields of colour and geometry. The crystal field functions as an archive, holding within its intricate geometry a record of the specific circumstances under which it formed.