Learning and Growing
The first initial fase of experimenting with growing mycelium in different materials: straw, seaweed, paper pulp, clay, to experience how it develops, with the aim of finding 3D printable mixes of living material.
Documenting the growing material both with photography and photogrammetry to develop visual material for art work and knowledge building.
Foreground – Mushroom growing from a mix of mucelium, hemp fibres and clay.
Background – 3D Printed figure made with mycelium, hemp fibres and clay in different colours.
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Wild mushrooms growing in agar agar in petri dish.
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Experimenting with mycelium in: algae, paper pulp, clay, straw powder.
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First experiments with oyster mushroom growing in mixed medium of straw and clay (different natural clay colours).
Mycelium developing in hemp and clay in petridish.
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Different strains of mycelia growing mushrooms: Shiitake, Lions Main and Pink Oyster
Mycelium and fungi of Lions Main mushroom
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Pink oyster mushrooms growing from mycelium in 1 liter buckets. Beside – the mycelium body from inside the bucket seen covered with mycelium skin.
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3D print with slightly developed mycelia and fungi (fruit).
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Below images from the process of photogrammetry and 3D scans, transforming the Reishi block into a 3D model.
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Block of Reishi mycelium in development with bacteria.
