Study of Urban Decay is a cycle of textile works in which I explore the visual and material traces of urban decomposition. My inspiration comes from the architectural surfaces of the city – walls, pavements, and facades – where biological processes reveal themselves through stains, mosses, lichens, and microorganisms. The fabric becomes both a field of observation and a site where these processes can reappear. I use natural dyes made from alder cones, bark, and fungi, which I pour and spread across the textile, allowing them to act partly on their own. Colour and texture emerge through an organic process that mirrors the slow proliferation of life on urban surfaces.

The compositions are abstract yet evoke microbiological rhythms and structures. The pigments subtly emerge from the background, suggesting the quiet presence of non-human organisms hidden within the city’s cracks and layers. Through Study of Urban Decay, I aim to capture a moment of coexistence – a state in which the synthetic and the organic merge, revealing the persistence of life within the decaying structures of the urban environment. 

STUDY OF URBAN DECAY (III), 2025
Bio-pigment extracted from black beans on cotton canvas dyed with black tea
120 × 120 cm