Synthetic Growth

A knitted dress, with a hand-shaped, chia seed train. Same process as for look 2, in my little greenhouse:)
The upper part is made from about 40 recycled PET-bottles (thanks to friends and family for helping me collect it). Cut into long strips, melted with a heat gun and then knitted on freehand.

”Synthetic Growth is a collection of a clash between synthetic, recycled plastic; pet-bottles, pet-corks and plastic bags, and organically growing chia seeds. Where I wish to show how plastic prevents us from living in symbiosis with nature.

The world is caught in a deadly clash – a battle between the synthetic and the natural. Plastic has become the dark symbol of our disposable- and throwaway culture, a culture obsessed with consumption that rips us away from nature and propels us toward climate catastrophe. This fight is not just a metaphor – it’s the grim reality we live in. Every. Single. Day.

Plastic is suffocating life. It prevents us from living in symbiosis with the earth, from living in balance with the ecosystems, the ecosystems that we depend on. We have allowed synthetic materials to take over our existence, to choke our oceans, poison our soil, and even infiltrate our bodies. The result? Nature is dying. Animals starve to death, with bellies full of plastic. Microplastics rain from the sky, contaminating our food and water. And all the while, the planet warms, inching ever closer to disaster as the climate crisis rages on.

We’ve passed the point where small changes are enough. The time to act is now, before we become the next species wiped out in the plastic-drenched world we’ve created!”