To Fade, To Grow
Individual | 2025.11
The project is an immersive installation exploring the life cycle of Coprinopsis cinerea, commonly known as the ink cap. Through VR interaction and audio, the artwork invites viewers to contemplate life and death not as opposites, but as a continuous process.
The ink cap grows in real time. During the exhibition, the installation reveals different stages of its life cycle as viewers pass by the screen at different times of a day. When viewers approach and wear the VR headset, they see a large-scale fungus slowly growing and dissolving, prompting reflection on the life.
Coprinopsis Cinerea, known as Ink Cap, is a tiny fungus that has existed for nearly 50 million years.
They grow quietly across the world, yet the fruitbody only exists for one single day.
As life reaches its end, the Cap slowly dissolves into an inky liquid, and falls into the soil with spores to give birth to new life —-To fade, to grow.
Through VR, the audience can observe Ink Cap’s slow growth and fading in one day.
Life never pauses. Life is fading away.
They grow quietly across the world, yet the fruitbody only exists for one single day.
As life reaches its end, the Cap slowly dissolves into an inky liquid, and falls into the soil with spores to give birth to new life —-To fade, to grow.
Through VR, the audience can observe Ink Cap’s slow growth and fading in one day.
Life never pauses. Life is fading away.