HEYDT’s work confronts the paradox of our age: we know ecological collapse and social disintegration are upon us, yet we act as if nothing has changed. Her art exposes this disavowal by violently dismantling family slides and cultural relics, dissolving the comforting myths of permanence and progress. In their destruction, these objects become unstable fragments—ghostly traces of forgotten futures and unrealized possibilities. HEYDT’s practice reveals history not as a linear march forward but as a site of collapse and contingency. Her textured, fragmented pieces unmask the interconnected violence of ecological and social crises, where privilege shields some while devastating others. Yet her critique resists moralism; it demands solidarity, insisting that catastrophe is collective and inescapable. Through destruction, HEYDT redeems. By pulling the emergency brake on the runaway train of late capitalism, she opens space for radical imagination. Her work rejects the fiction of inevitable progress, challenging us to embrace rupture, risk, and the courage to begin again. HEYDT forces us to confront the unbearable truth: history is not fixed—it is a palimpsest, rewritten through acts of destruction and creation. Her art dares us to abandon false certainties and reimagine the future from zero. Only through rupture can we author something new.