Mayken Craenen

Mayken Craenen is an artist, florist, and one half of the duo behind Antwerp-based floral and creative studio, Wilder. She crafted special collages to accompany the cassette. When listening through the tracks, a vivid scenery emerged: “I imagined jungles, underwater landscapes, and dripping grottos, with things growing and buzzing with life.” The clay sculptures became living forms within the landscape, interspersed with other creatures and inhabitants. This dreamscape inspired her use of materials, building a world around the sculptures: “I used organic fragments from old books: funghi, flowers, and minerals, combined with the lively, intuitive scribbles of my youngest daughter which also seemed to illustrate the musical movements.”

I used organic fragments from old books: fungi, flowers, and minerals, combined with the lively, intuitive scribbles of my youngest daughter which also seemed to illustrate the musical movements.

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