I find it extremely exciting and useful to conceptually develop graphic design and applied art products that focus on a responsible approach to art and social design. These aspects of the doctoral study and the masterpiece draw indispensably on revolutionary innovations in traditional and innovative bio-based materials, technological solutions, and own material experiments with a conscious approach, while combining interactively facilitating perceptual outcomes. I believe that this special field of research, the concept, prepared with due care and attention and based on professional experience, the material experiments carried out with humility and patience, according to a unique vision, result in creative products that, beyond the experimental summation and sense of creative pleasure, can also serve as a learning experience for other designers and applied artists.
In my research in support of my theses, and when I brought the specific masterpiece to life, I was in awe of the mycelium as a remarkable entity with its own emotions and perceptions. I was fascinated by the interaction between us, which is often not yet perfectly decodable, but certainly transcends the contingency. The laboratory experiments also hold crucial practical possibilities for artistically conscious packaging culture, which need further refinement. A respectful and humble collaboration with mycelium, supported by the right theoretical and ideological background, can offer a great opportunity for creative people to think and experiment, to create new products of artistic value in the spirit of eco-conscious environmentalism.
