One Straw Revolution
"Plant seeds - perhaps the most valuable and precious materials to be found on planet earth - have since entered Navarro's engaged art practice.” - Roel Arkesteijn, 2017
My current and ongoing project takes its name from Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution, a foundational text that has inspired natural farming and permaculture movements worldwide. At its center is a space defined by four and a half tatami mats—a quiet site for gathering, reading, and exchange.
Throughout the exhibition, seedball workshops invite participants to learn how to create small, regenerative bundles of soil and seeds, designed to be sown in open soil. Participants are asked to document the growth of their seedballs, fostering a tangible relationship with the life they help to cultivate.
The project also explores handmade paper as a living medium. Using recycled books and paper, I embed each sheet with organic, locally-sourced seeds. These pages act as vessels—carriers of drawings, poems, stories, instructions, emails, maps—each one both a crop-trust and a time capsule. Fully plantable and able to regenerate, they offer the possibility of a global publication: a living magazine that grows, blossoms, and spreads across borders.
