I do love the creativity of the embroidery and textile artists when it comes to things like this

Also of interest is Dasha Plesen, an artist who grows different bacteria/mold cultures in petri dishes to create really beautiful forms and colours. She posted on Reddit and here’s an article about her creations-

https://kottke.org/21/09/disgustingly-beautiful-mold-art

edit- hope you don’t mind but I posted the photo here

https://lemmy.ml/post/3019438

This is wild