MATERIAL STUDY:

bacterial cellulose

A material experiment with bacterial cellulose, grown from kombucha cultures. This material is extremely adaptable, and can be stiff, flexible, opaque, transparent, hard as MDF or papery as onion skin. This sample is stiff, and has been allowed to dry naturally, curling and curving in reaction to the air and its own cellular structure. Elevated on a precarious scaffolding that follows its natural curved forms, it is delicately balanced to express the feeling of vulnerability that comes with hope of a better future.