2020

Here we listen to the tree's tales and arias, breathing the melodious air, filtered by the mulberry leaves...

At a certain moment in time, we become aware of things that were completely ignored before, and from this realisation, new perspectives are born. In this series, “Aspiration of Botanicals”, we delve into the universe of botanicals and its secret manual for balance. This sensory journey begins with a mulberry leaf.

It is late summertime and under the constant sunshine a large mulberry tree exercises its daily routine in silence. Carried by the touch of a velvet summer breeze, an evocative and pleasant smell fills the air, creating a shroud of rich aromatics around the mulberry tree. We are invited to enter this fragrant space, which transports us instantly to somewhere outside of time, a place both familiar and new, ancient and vital. Here we listen to the tree’s tales and arias, breathing the melodious air, filtered by its leaves. 

The mulberry leaf, with its unpretentious, almost introverted personality, changed the global cultural and economic landscape when it first took the world by storm more than two thousand years ago: From a single leaf came the creation of the paper, luxurious silk and the evolving culture of art and innovation.

Beyond all, the extraordinary ceremony to cherish the creativity of humans and nature start with an invisible form of being: the smell.