The Grow Kitchen

Photo courtesy by HONF

Last February some of my friends from HONF (House of Natural Fiber), DorxLab and XXLab and I had a chance to exhibit our works titled Grow Kitchen; Five Kingdoms of Life in Gallery of Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau France for more than two weeks. Here's some stories

Photo courtesy by HONF

Photo courtesy by HONF

About November last year I was ask to join with the XXLab, an open group consist with girls whom love to challenge their-self with projects that combines art, science and technology. Since then we've already done some project, and the latest one is the Grow Kitchen project. The project was initiated by HONF  also collaborating on designing the installation is DorxLab, a community who've done many contemporary architectural project.

The Grow Kitchen is an expanding project from XXLab previous work, we call it Wati Project. We set off from the Blue Economy principle in our work and incorporate it in our whole works. It is basically a living method on how to produce and consume as friendly as possible with the environment, by leaving no harmful waste and maximizing the use of natural material in the producing activity. The Grow Kitchen is our way to show people how possible it is, not by buying fancy technology with big science to learn, but it cant start it from our own kitchen, it is simple and fun, with a twist of craziness off course ;)

The installation it self based on the five kingdoms of live, it is a classification to divide diverse living material on earth. Each section of the installation symbolize each classification and the alternative invention we can get from it, for example, to represent bacteria, we made a vegetarian leather material from soy bean liquid waste, to represent plant we've made an alternative for bio diesel source from grass jelly leaves, and many more.

Besides preparing for the exhibition, we also held some grow kitchen workshop for the student of ESSE, one of the well known art school in Pau. Some of the workshop we gave are; natural dyeing, moist censoring, making bacteria starter for vegetable leather cellulose. After the workshop, the student then help us to preparing all what is need for the exhibition, including made some of the graphic design material and the exhibition posters. It's been a great time spending with these people, we had great moment chatting, working, eating and off course partying with them. Miss them so bad, and definitely miss Pau so bad :(

PS: Learn more about House of Natural Fiber and their activity on their website, also go visit the Le Bel Ordinaire Gallery here

Photo courtesy by HONF

Photo courtesy by HONF

Photo courtesy by HONF