Everything
Plants, Soil & Fungi

Discovering a forgotten flavour, touching living materials, hunting for precious seeds and herbs

often between the gallery and the garden, the design object and the living matter, the soil and the seed

Event Curator, Bio-designer, Artist

I had the honor to be featured in Neo-Japonism on the NHK and NHK world.

Fragrance of Grass

Fragrance of Grass is a traveling series of artful culinary experiences celebrating all the flavors we no longer recognize.

Each event is centered around the forgotten scents of herbs, fruits, and seeds rarely encountered in contemporary cuisine.

Developed in collaboration with inquisitive chefs, these dinners explore the intersection of food, ecology, and art.

Carefully curated performances and artworks accompany the meal, transforming every encounter into a convivial sensory meditation on taste, the environment, and our relationship with plants.

Along the way, I have collected many herbal teas that I prepare as a mixologist and tea master

In Ozu, Ehime, I worked with the local population to keep alive the love of the local forests care-takers.

In Japan, Shinto played an essential role in connecting humans to the natural world. Before 1906 and the great consolidation, most villages of Japan had several Chinju no Mori (Sacred Groves) that surrounded Shinto Shrines. In 1906, the kami were “moved” to bigger shrines and the forests were cut. The people of the village lost contact with their forests.

The ecologist and scientist Minakata Kumagusu discovered at that time that a forest is not made by trees but also by these hidden organisms. Under the ground, the mycelium is connecting all living beings.

The project and exhibition revolves around small torii (sacred gate) in mycelium.
The shape evokes sacredness, the mycelium evokes the hidden networks that make the forest alive.The aim of The Archivist is to spread heirloom seeds in the regions visited.

The Archivist

The Archivists is an artistic interpretation of principles of natural farming, permaculture and urban gardening through clay and seed sculpture, clay painting, fiction and rituals.
The aim of The Archivist is to spread heirloom seeds in the regions visited.

The first iteration of the Archivist, at Bridge Studio, in Kyoto, in ended January 2026.

At the end of the exhibition, more than 20 000 seeds from endangered native species of Japan were disseminated.