Poetry in movement
Original painting in natural organic plastic poured on plexiglass.
40 x 50 cm.
Organic plastic (agar agar, water, glycerol)
Natural pigments of blue spirulina, white clay and oystershells poured on glass.
Framed in honeydew coloured oak.
Why Organic plastic?
“I, as an artist along with everyone else find ourselves in a time where we need to take responsibility. Take action. Sacrifice our old habits and materials, find new solutions, and poke the sleeping to awake curiosity on how we can come back to and co-exist with nature again. This is my aim as an artist, working with organic materials.
Organic plastic is, simply put - home-cooked plastic. A mix of water, glycerol, potato starch, and gelatine/agar agar slowly cooked together. It gets flexible and very resistant, but can also (if not treated with wax) dissolve into water again without doing any harm to humans or nature. This is just one of the materials I have experimented with during the past three years. Others are mycelium, kombucha scooby, and coffee- and clay leather.
Why do I do this? I believe we as humans are flexible and smart. We can’t undo but we surely can redo. We are solution-orientated. And we want to do good.
We want to do good.
We want to do good.
We want to do good.
If we start taking interest in climate smart solutions, we can find a way to co-exist in harmony with nature again. This is what I want my art to awaken. This is why I choose organic materials.”