Socrates Organism (2021)

PLA/PHA compound with 30% recycled wood fibers, grey-oyster mushroom spores, inoculated rye berries, lime-pasturized straw, micropore surgical tape

Socrates Organism (2021)

Durational sculpture, in which oyster mushrooms grow within and eventually consume a 3D printed mold. Photographed on the 1st day and 30th day of its growth cycle.

The mold utilizes a 3D scan of a bust from the British Museum, created by Daniel Prett, and shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. This model has been edited in Rhino using a custom Grasshopper script to uniformly create holes in the surface and prepare the model for 3d printing.