Twelve dried dates wired with black leads to a microcontroller.

A cinder block and slime wired to a laptop running a music program.

Sped-up microscope footage of slime mold spreading.

Yellow slime mold in a circular microscope view on black.

A pill organizer on a concrete wall with a clock hand across it.

Bio-Based Electronics

2024–ongoing
Dried dates, silicone slime, Physarum polycephalum, a pill organizer
Escape Clause, The Horological Society of New York, 2025

Circuits built from living and decaying materials. Date Clock wires twelve dried dates to a microcontroller, and the time drifts as they lose water; the Slime Archive follows Physarum polycephalum under a microscope.

The work explores what changes when the conductive material in an interface grows and decays on its own timeline, designing around the drift rather than removing it.

Being Without Brains, Adjacent 12 Slime Mold Web Archive, Ranger Horological Society show