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Take a look at my [[/Experiments/]] to see how i learnt how to grow Physarum Poloycephalum. | Take a look at my [[/Experiments/]] to see how i learnt how to grow ''Physarum Poloycephalum''. | ||
I grow Physarum in a stable environment: a petri-dish and Agar Agar as a medium. To make the Physarum grow, I feed it with oat flakes once every day. After four to five days the Physarum will start growing out of the petri-dish. Or not - it is a living organism after all with its own moods and sometimes strange behaviours. | I grow Physarum in a stable environment: a petri-dish and Agar Agar as a medium. To make the Physarum grow, I feed it with oat flakes once every day. After four to five days the Physarum will start growing out of the petri-dish. Or not - it is a living organism after all with its own moods and sometimes strange behaviours. | ||
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'''Wearing | '''Wearing ''Physarum Polycephalum''''' | ||
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Fashion is always a statement piece. | Fashion is always a statement piece. No one will ever just wear something. Clothes will always express | ||
Is it disgusting? Is it to not feel alone? Would | something: a lifestyle, an occupation, a state of mind. When a human chooses to wear clothes that have | ||
dormant slime mold on it, when a human has an organism living on its clothes, what does that say | |||
about the human? Is it disgusting? Is it to not feel alone? Would a human rather have the slime grow on | |||
its skin and the clothes are just the next possible option? | |||
The collection of clothing “Inside and outside we are the same” is not part of the fast fashion world. | |||
Physarum is | Neither is it part of the sustainable fashion world, which claims to be connected to nature. It is a | ||
different world: ''Physarum Polycephalum''’s world. This world is usually deep in a forest, on rotten | |||
wood, slimy and smelling. When wearing ''Physarum Polycephalum'' clothes humans might become a | |||
part of this world. Humans are sharing their bodies with a living organism. Humans are connected to | |||
nature, and disconnected from the fast fashion world, humans are post-sustainable, environmentally | |||
conscious, but in a disgusting way. | |||
Wearing ''Physarum Polycephalum'' clothes is nothing that should be done frivolously. After all it is a | |||
dormant - but living - organism on your clothes. While wearing ''Physarum Polycephalum'' clothes human will never be alone. Human will be accompanied by a single-cell slime mold. On the other | |||
hand, humans can never rely on ''Physarum Polycephalum'' to be suitable for a clothing piece: will it | |||
grow into the right direction? On the right foil? Will it keep growing or should it be applied onto the | |||
fabric immediately? It is alive and has its own will. Growing fast, slow or not at all. With the ''Physarum | |||
Polycephalum'' the clothes it lives on have cycles too. The ''Physarum Polycephalum'' can be removed and | |||
be regrown in a petri-dish. In the meantime the clothes can be washed. Then the organism can be | |||
reapplied onto the clothes. And every time this happens a new and unique clothing piece will be | |||
created, which is growing and changing with the slime mold. | |||