I loved talking with Reece Brice, whose mushroom sculptures turn plastic waste into something magical. Each piece is a single bottle, transformed by heat and imagination into organic, glowing forms—like a forest of mycelium breaking down the past and growing a new future. His installations, lit from within with fishing line ‘roots’ and dancing light, feel alive, almost breathing. Reece sees plastic not as trash, but as a material waiting for its next life, and his mushrooms are a poetic reminder that repair is possible—if we just learn to listen to nature’s quiet genius.
https://reecebrice-art.shopstar.co.za/
https://www.instagram.com/reecebrice.art/
https://humanities.uct.ac.za/michaelis/contacts/reece-brice
https://www.lumenocity.art/artists-alley/reece-brice
Biophilia, book by Edward Wilson https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674074422
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, marine biologist,policy expert,writer https://www.ayanaelizabeth.com/
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