The work was created in 2024 as part of the exhibition project NEW ECOLOGIES, organized on the occasion of Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture.

The display case contains a 3D model of the city of Chemnitz made of mixed substrate. A living fungus mycelium is growing on it. Due to the fiber-degrading properties of the fungal mycelium, the textile waste in the substrate is slowly broken down — a deliberate reference to Chemnitz’s history as a former center of the textile industry. Increasingly overgrown by the mycelium, a completely different and organic image of the city, its ruins, and its waste emerges.