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Bacterioglyphs

A minor leak in CCB#5 has been observed by Freek in september, which at first seemed to be closing itself. The amount of liquid lost...

CCB#5 | First Harvest Ready

The first harvest of CCB#5 ready for drying! I’ve been doing some googling to find out how large the biggest scoby ever made was... found...

Circular with Cellulose- Expo Valette

The 2019 edition of this collective summer exhibition set stage for the papur worx [2017-2019]. Also ‘Lumiere’ & ‘Ritmo’ by Armando...

Flora and the Water Warriors - Expo

Rushing to get ready for the vernissage of Flora & the Water Warriors' with Bart Ramakers & William Sweetlove. With forewords of Dirk...

The Dogue - The Making Of

World premiere for 100% sustainable printing on stable PAPUR canvas. A printer with UV-cured, solvent-free ink was used (Milo Profi -...

Omics & the Hospital of the Future

A sustainable health care shall be preventive. It is our own body that delivers the basic materials (samples) for a preventive medicine...

War! (in bioreactor trays)

An ‘open’ set up with six black trays of de Verbeke CCB’s #2 & #3 in spring got infected by alien fungi, which happily sporulated all on...

PAPUR | Painters Canvas

When scobies are mounted on cheescloth to dry, cloth & scoby strongly adhere to each other. The adhesion can be enhanced by treating the...

Symbolic Abstraction & Realism

This is the most recent collaboration with Stef De Belder. For his retrospective exhibition in ‘t Getouw, Mol, Belgium, he wrote poetry,...

The Fish

Sometimes the growth & drying of scobies gives unexpected resemblances. Like the fish. The few strands of yeast created a dark eye and...

Fusain-Fusain! Expo Valette 2018

The old-school charcoal nudes & portraits of the nillies revisited. By taking them in the digital sphere and giving them a new life in...

Tray

Just took my latest kombucha scoby from the 3D drying stand. I dried it with the upper (the dry) side outward and this surface evolved to...

EARTH ACT!ON

The first transfer to thin bleached PAPUR, out of CCB#1. Plus coat of acrylic medium. Works well, feels a bit ‘plastic’, synthetic.

Crystals of life | SIPTRIN Ends

Out of one of the aquariums came a most beautifully hibernating scoby. The slow drying had allowed crystals to grow inside and...

First 3D culture

Seeding of PAPUR flakes with fresh medium will yield a 3D object when seeded in a 3D mould. More experiments to follow.

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