Mycelium Cellar

NEW ZEALAND  ·  2026

Darkness as material. The wine cellar arrived already complete in its atmosphere, aged beams, stacked barrels, the particular weight of a room built for patience and time. Into this, a single decision: to work with the edible installations that the space itself seemed to call for.

Threads of wool and cotton are drawn across the beams, white spores suggesting the invisible network beneath the forest floor. Edible installations conceived in dialogue with the cellar's own architecture. Matt black candle holders receding into what the room already held, each carrying a date sculpted into flower form, cut and curved open, dusted white, its bliss ball centre brought forward into the light.

An amber intervention to introduce the precise warmth the room required. Around it, almost nothing. Edible artefacts suspended within an architectural web. The space between objects is considered as carefully as the objects themselves.

A silent alignment of shadow and amber. Archetypal space, undisturbed. A commission that observed before it intervened.

What the dark held once, it will not hold again.