When his roommate died, all that remained was a box of clothes. Adrien Van der Mierde stitched a first flower from those fabrics — something that could stay when a person cannot. Today, in his small Antwerp atelier, he creates lasting textile bouquets for families in mourning.

Nikos Salda is a Greek artist and architect whose large-scale installations explore the fragile balance between structure, light, and belief. From The 13th Star, a 90-meter yellow scaffold built on a former NATO base, to Shading the Cradle, a floating canopy above the Parthenon, his works transform symbols of power into gestures of protection.

In the mountains of Nagano, Japanese designer Hideo Mori builds nature drones from bamboo, hemp, and resin. His fragile creations awaken when water rises or the ground trembles — silent guardians that listen to the landscape and return to it once their purpose is fulfilled.

At the edge of Europe, where the land breaks into sea, a yellow star rises—built from a hundred thousand scaffolding bars on a former NATO base. Nikos Salda’s 13th Star turns a site of defense into a beacon of peace, a monument for what remains unfinished.

Above the Parthenon, a vast black canopy hovers like a woven shadow — an act of preservation and provocation at once. With Shading the Cradle, Nikos Salda reimagines democracy not as a ruin, but as a structure that still breathes, fragile and unfinished beneath the Athenian sun.