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Celia de Villiers
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Description
A fungus fantasy developed from an innerspring mattress and a dream to grow a substrate for mycelial filaments. Mycelia form the basis of research for today's industry in cellular agriculture (Sheldrake, M. 2020). Merging physical, digital, and biological worlds is the bioengineering passageway to the current fourth industrial revolution, and like the first, is connected to textile manufacture.A conceptual model for future ecological processes, this artwork consists of 98% reclaimed waste. It proposes game-changing products - decomposing and re-making waste objects into energy efficient modes of production. The sculpture is inspired by the bracket mushroom (shelf fungus or conk), which is able to convert debris into useable inorganic elements. My textile vision of a future generation's bed remediates functional furniture and mythical forest tales. References: Sheldrake, M. 2020. Entangled life, how fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures. Vintage Publishing (214-219). Materials - 1)Medium - 95% upcycled and re-made biodegradable textiles, reclaimed wire and a deconstructed double-bed mattress. 2)Technique - Blending and integrating - Handmade wet felting, Nuno felting, handweaving, knitting, crocheting, hand and machine-embroidery, botanic printing and eco dyeing. Back to the exhibition
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