With Neptune Grass

2025

Woven seagrass and cyanotype on watercolour paper

Exhibited as part of the More Than Human exhibition at Katve Art Space, Helsinki, Finland, 2026.

Link: https://www.helsinkiurbanart.com/en/katve-pop-up-hiaa-more-than-human-2/

Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) forms underwater meadows that are essential habitats for marine animals, providing food, shelter, and nursery grounds for fish and other species. These biodiverse ecosystems are threatened by climate change and various human activities. For example, Neptune grass is highly sensitive to nutrient runoff from agriculture and livestock production, which degrades water quality and disrupts the growth of the plant. Damage to Posidonia meadows has cascading effects on marine animal life.

The With Neptune Grass artwork aims to highlight the interconnectedness of the more-than-human world, where human behaviours — such as consumption habits and extractive practices — can have devastating consequences for biodiversity. The artwork consists of two interlinked elements: a woven composition made from dried, washed-up Posidonia oceanica leaves collected during an artist residency in Split, Croatia, and a cyanotype of the same form. While the woven piece symbolises presence, care, and entanglement between humans and more-than-human, the cyanotype appears as a ghostly trace, evoking loss and disappearance. Through this poetic duality, With Neptune Grass urges humans to reflect on the effects of agricultural, industrial, and extractive systems on animal life and environments.