Inspired by the way ecosystems and plants adapt to one another and share space—creating layered, diverse habitats—this piece seeks to recreate that natural pattern and the underlying sense of cooperation through living materials.
The design is shaped by plants growing directly into and through the textile. Built upon the rhythmic structure of the fabric, it echoes the human imprint on today’s landscapes. Some areas are left bare—a quiet reminder of the spaces we have claimed, controlled, or erased. Yet nature is persistent: given time, plants return—even over what we’ve taken. To move forward, we must learn to truly collaborate with the natural world, rather than dominate it.
The piece is sustained by a pump system that keeps the plants alive, symbolizing the active role humans must take in giving space back to nature and supporting plant growth. It reflects the possibility of a more balanced, intentional relationship—one where care and cooperation replace control.
By harmonizing natural growth with human intervention, this work offers a vision of coexistence—where humans are not separate from nature, but interwoven with it.
size: 58 x 72cm
seeds: radish, amaranth, chia, buckwheat, linen
fabric: linen, cotton
This piece connects wool from different landscapes, transformed into a single crochet, intertwining stories gathered from afar. The piece grew while traveling—absorbing places, moments, and movement along the way. At each stop, new hands contributed, leaving behind their unique crochet patterns and shaping a shared, collective memory.
Especially by choosing the slower travels, in between the places is time to relfect, observe changes and slowly arrive in the new places.
The circle reflects on how traveling connects places, people from far away places get connected through the traveling one. Memories are brought in and out.
Observing the landscapes traveling, the bare soil around the crochet piece reflects the shocking amount of bare soil or monocultures observed in the landscape. By placing wild flower seeds in the crochet circle that will grow during the exhibition period and beyond, it aims to inspire to have an imprint that enhances growth.
The crochet will slowly transform into soil again, being a true sign of circuality. The memories, impressions and experiences as well as the real material will be eaten by bacteria, fungi, and all the inhabitants of the soil. They will be eating the wool from Brandenburg, as well as from the shetlands. It all comes together here and leaves and imprint of wild native flowers behind.
wool: self-spun wool from Brandenburg (Coburger Landschaf), second hand natural fibers, New Landmark Mills wool, shetland sheep
contributions: Marlene, Steven, Mark, Alfred, Nicole, Ondine, Kate, Jenny, Dan, Charlotte
seeds: mix of native wildflowers
the plants were growing towards the light, nicely out of the crochet. I was very happy to receive some updates.
