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Soil Recipe transforms waste into soil through grinding and composting. The exhibition at BioArt Laboratories features sprouting soil sculptures, a recipe book, and a workshop where visitors can create soil themselves. It reveals how waste, humans, and organisms are all part of nature’s cycle.
Waste = Soil
Soil Recipe transforms everyday waste—coffee grounds, chicken bones, shattered ceramics, cotton cloth, and paper—into fertile soil through fermentation and maturation. It captures the moment when discarded matter shifts from an ecological threat into a ground that nurtures new life.
Life Maker!
Visitors become life-makers as they craft soil through the Soil Recipe and witness sprouts emerging from it. By transforming waste into soil, anyone can embody Mother Nature—the mother of soil—and experience the act of reviving nature.
Soil Brain
Soil Recipe offers both a scientific and philosophical perspective on soil. By experimentally combining the pH, decomposition rate, and material properties of various residues, it opens a new way of seeing the world—through the brain of soil.
About Hyun Seo
Heather Seo is a designer and artist exploring how ecology, digital media, and materials come together. With a background in fine arts and design, she looks at waste in new ways and studies how humans and non-humans can live in circular, interconnected systems. For her, design is not only about making objects, but about creating processes where people, organisms, and environments continuously influence and renew each other.
