The Fantastic Series, artworks, installations and videos, scrutinize, with humor, human consumption and convenience in relation to nature, time, labor and craft. The art pieces are entirely made of repurposed plastic, altered through time-consuming techniques such as slicing and hand-stitching, or sometimes simply recontextualized. These laborious processes generate an increase in worth of plastic, a material primarily valued for its convenience and low production cost: the transubstantiated detritus become precious, as precious as the ingenious chemistry of polymers invented by humans. Plastic is alchemy in disguise, the new gold. As durable as gold, but poison to all creatures and to the environment. Fantastic doesn’t only point out misuse but also prompts reflection on the high value of human ingenuity, the worth of the discarded, and the preciousness of time.

The Fantastic videos feature some of the artworks in jarring and surreal scenarios.

The Fantastic Blooms Series goes further in caricaturing overconsumption and pollution. It draws inspiration from anthropologist Philippe Descola’s exploration of the human/non-human dichotomy, Anna Tsing’s multi-species anthropology, forest ethno-ecologies, and the visionary fictions of Ursula K. Le Guin. These influences shape sculptures that reflect on the impact of both natural and human-induced devastation of the vegetal world. Despite the seriousness of its inspirations and subject matter, Fantastic Blooms incorporates a playful nod to popular comic culture, with its abundance of hybrids and supernatural powers. This whimsical series contemplates the mysteries of nature in the face of human intervention and explores the potential for sustainable symbiosis.