Printing on Cellulose – Bacterial Cellulose

The idea was to create a bacteria cellulose sheet and then print onto that an illustration that describes the bacteria’s history; how they were created and indeed how they would perish. I imagined a tome of sorts combining a scientific diagram of the process with imagery representing aspects of the growth cycles.

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Bleading Heart – Bacterial Printing

Do you remember carving little love hearts into a tree? This is like that, except for it’s carved out of inanimate material and then life is added into the wound. In this case the flesh like quality of the agar and red pigment of the Ecoli give it the feeling of a bloody wound.

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a (place)holder – Bacterial Cellulose

A basket made out of pieced bacterial cellulose, naturally dyed with indigo, logwood, pokeberry, and cutch: a basket to hold the remnants of a lifecycle, to become a placeholder for time, to honor the gathering of information, to pay respect to process, to give back to the the soil we came from.

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Suncatchers

I was really interested in the materiality of the bacterial cellulose that we worked with, particularly in the ways it interacted with light and it’s versatility. I made a series of objects intended to be suncatchers, interactive with natural and bright light. I tried sculpting forms, embroidering, and watercolor painting and layering.

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Mycelium

This project used Grey Dove (Pleurotus Ostreatus) oyster mycelium to “weave” a basket-like nest out of straw. This nest was then populated with egg-like objects sculpted from polymer clay. These “eggs” each reference other biological materials or processes. They appear here out of their typical context, just as basket weaving is not the typical behavior or context of mycelium.

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