Protocols of desire (dupes)

Symbolizing our urge to control life and our relentless desire for beauty, cultivated flowers become icons of human engineering: designed, bred, and grown to meet our ideals of perfection.
The collages show parts of the visually descriptive manuals from toy-flowers. They have a similarity to scientific botanical illustrations, where plants and flowers are dissected and categorized into different elements in order to understand their inner workings and structure. 

Framing the collages are structures grown from living mycelium—the thread-like networks of fungi. Fungi have become the latest eco-trend, celebrated as nature’s hidden heroes—healers, recyclers, connectors, givers of life... 


Titles: 

Protocols of desire (dupes) I - (digital collage print, mycelium frame, Pleurotus Ostreatus, woodchips)

Protocols of desire (dupes) II - (digital collage print, mycelium frame, Pleurotus Ostreatus, woodchips)

Contruct of desire (Magnolia) - (plastic toyflower)