Natural Materials
Plant roots, mushroom mycelium, leaves — materials that grow, decompose, and leave traces entirely on their own terms. I cultivate mycelium in my Amsterdam Noord studio using Reishi, Trametes Versicolor, and various Oyster mushrooms, growing forms through recycled substrates. I press roots and leaves, following the impressions they make.
What draws me to all of it is the same thing: these materials have their own logic, their own direction. The mycelium builds invisible networks. The leaf finds its way through darkness. The roots holds the memory of its own form. I collaborate with that rather than override it.
The work sits somewhere between cultivation and discovery — sustainable art made with living systems, asking what grows unseen and what it means to work with nature rather than on it.
