neck accessory created by bio-designer and underwater photographer Zena Holloway may look like sea coral, but it's actually made from moulded wheatgrass roots (2024)

Zena Holloway Root Collar

Underwater photography by Zena Holloway

What if we could grow our clothes from seed?

Zena Holloway

Zena Holloway, British photographer

Zena Holloway

Designers try to steer the industry toward a more ethical, sustainable future, materials are often front of mind, including for Zena Holloway, who recently released a collection of garments and objects grown from grass roots.

Inspired by the sprawling, delicate shape of coral, Holloway creates soft, textured dresses, collars, lamps, and mobiles from wheatgrass seed. The plant sprouts over the course of about two weeks in beeswax molds. As it grows, it produces its intricately woven root structure, which the designer guides into specific spaces or allows to expand into large, sheet-like forms. Entirely compostable, the material is “both reality and metaphor, aiming to expose the beauty and vulnerability of coral and to champion ocean conservation,” and has the potential to be sewn into clothing or shaped into other functional goods.

The project, known as Rootfull, is ongoing, and Holloway shares a glimpse of her process in the video below. Follow her latest designs on Instagram.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/.../zena-holloway-rootfull/

Zena Holloway root-grown garments

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trabalhando com raízes de grama, as bio-esculturas vestíveis de zena holloway

Underwater photography by Zena Holloway

Free online event tonight explores connections between archaeology and comics

The Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway is hosting a free online panel discussion tonight in celebration of the publication of "Comics and Archaeology"

The Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway is hosting a free online panel discussion tonight, Tuesday 24th January 2023, in celebration of the publication of Comics and Archaeology, edited by Dr. Zena Kamash, Dr. Katy Soar and Dr. Leen Van Broeck. Part of the book series, Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, this book adds to the scant academic literature…

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