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 It's Physarum's world and we're just living in it
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+Fashion is always a statement piece. No one will ever just wear something. Clothes will always express
+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.
+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.
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+(Photos: David Lê)
+Wearing clothes is always connected to a certain state of mind, and when wearing my Physarum clothes you should keep the following concepts in mind:
+we are connected to nature, but in a disgusting way; kate moss said: "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" but i say: "nothing feels as good as mold tastes"; walking until your feet bleed, but you will go insane if you don't do it; i share my breakfast of oatflakes with the slime mold that is growing in my room; post-sustainability, i will pick up my clothes from the streets and smear slime mold onto them; like Physarum we live in cycles; my clothes change and eventually will be destroed with me; we have bled through so many fabrics; biting into an apple and realizing it is full of maggots is like putting on clothes and realizing they started to mold, but this time we keep wearing them, we become a part of Physarum's world, we're not an important part in Physarum's world anymore, we're just living in it.
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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.
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 The fabric looks more stained and brown. And it took a long time to completely dry it. It did not dry completly under the weights, instead I air-dryed it after 5 days under the weights.
-'''How to wear & wash it'''
-The Physarum on the clothes is completely dry. The Physarum will be revived when water is added - so be careful in the rain!
-If you want to wash the piece you have to add some water droplets on the Physarum and gently scrape it of with a spoon or something similiar. The Physarum should then be placed into a coffee filter to store it. It can be revived for the next shirt. The piece without the Physarum can be washed.
-'''The Philosophy'''
-Could you think of your project in terms of sustainability? Social, economic, ecological? Could you think of the impact on the “other” bubble? How does your project contribute to the aspects?
-Fast fashion is one of the biggest climate killers in terms of water pollution, garbage production and c02 output. The fashion industry needs to focus on regrowing ecological media that does not harm the environment. Physarum can be the suitable medium for this problem. It is fast and cheap to grow and will not pollute or harm nature. After ist use for fashion and clothes it will simply become a part of nature again.
-'''Technical solution - how to produce Physarum clothes'''
+'''How to wash Physarum clothes'''
-To create Physarum clothing pieces, the Physarum has to be grwon on plastic foil. The foil is then pressed on the fabric by placing weight on the Physarum/the foil. After a week the Physarum is dried and the clothing is ready to wear.
+Carefully scrape the dried Physarum off the clothing piece. Place the dried Physarum in a petri-dish with agar medium. Revive it with three to four drops of water and feed it with some oat flakes. Place it in a dark environment for optimal growth, feed it every day with oatflakes and lay a plastic foil under the petri-dish, so the Physarum can spill over onto the foil and can be reapplied on the clothing piece.
-'''The progress''': [[/Experiments/]]
+The clothing piece can be washed normally, when the Physarum is scraped off.