Still in its speculative stage, this work explores how fungi can be shaped into forms that challenge our perceptions of materiality. How can this humble organism, often overlooked, be transformed into something functional, beautiful, and sustainable? What might it mean to touch something that grows, breathes, and decays all at once?
Balancing two fungi species with similar substrate preferences but differing growth rates is a unique challenge. How to harmonize their coexistence without one overtaking the other, allowing both to thrive in the same space?
As the project evolves, it invites contemplation on the balance between structure and fragility, permanence and transience, within both the material and the object itself.
In this process, I am not the designer, the mushrooms are. I only listen, adapt, and provide what they demand, trusting that the outcome will reveal itself in its own time.
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