Consume_ HB

Experimental mycelium-based photography
Dimensions: 69 × 90 cm
Fine Art print: Digigraphie® by Epson on Hahnemühle German Etching 310 g/m² paper
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Limited edition: 3 copies
Hand-signed and numbered

A glossy fashion photograph, featuring a non-professional model wearing a borrowed dress, highlights the illusion of unattainable social standards.

The image was laid out as part of a fictional fashion magazine titled Consume.

The fine art print was then placed inside a sterile box and inoculated with mycelium, the underground part of fungi that connects plants and trees like a dense neural network, destroying in order to regenerate.

Colonised and reshaped by the mycelium, the photograph was later removed from the box and “redeemed”, revealing two opposing forms of consumerism: the human one,  linear and self-contained, and the natural one, transformative and regenerative.