Silhouette of a small kokedama plant with broad leaves on a woven basket against a colorful gradient background.

What is La Semilla Salvaje?

La Semilla Salvaje, meaning “the Wild Seed” in Spanish, represents the birth of an idea in its purest form.

I see it as a space for experimentation, where digital creation meets natural, organic materials, and where I explore 3D printing and design from a different perspective, one rooted in nature.

It is born from my desire to reconnect with our natural origins,
and to explore the wild within us all,
the rare, the authentic, the essential.

Through this work, I seek not only to create,
but to invite others to reconnect with their own natural essence.

A decorative hand sculpture resembling a human hand with a red and black pattern, covered in green moss, placed on rocks with a piece of driftwood nearby.
Open sketchbook on a wooden table with a black pen beside it. The sketchbook contains a detailed pencil drawing of a tall jar with various landscape scenes inside. The opposite page shows handwritten notes and multiple smaller sketches of potted plants and a plant with curly tendrils.
A modern, abstract black sculpture with a porous, openwork design, displayed on a wooden surface with colorful lighting background.

Terrariums: the starting point.

This idea first began to take shape in my mind through a growing fascination with terrariums, learning how to create small, self-contained ecosystems where balance, humidity, light, and growth exist in harmony.

I started experimenting, teaching myself how to build and care for these miniature worlds, and quickly realised how much I was drawn to working with natural materials, living moss, rocks, and tropical miniature plants.

Through this process, terrariums taught me to observe natural systems more closely: how small changes affect growth, and how life adapts within constraints.

They became more than inspiration, they became a foundation, shaping the way I think about space, form, and environment.

La Semilla Salvaje grows directly from this craft.

A glass jar terrarium with various small green plants inside and 3d printed sculpture, placed on a flat stone on a wooden surface, with a wooden and lattice background.
A glass terrarium with a cork lid containing green and variegated plants, moss, soil, and white and orange gravel, placed on a gray stone slab on a wooden surface.
Top-down view of a glass plant container with moss, small rocks, green leaves, and a chrysalis in the soil.
A terrarium with a plant, moss, and a frog sitting on a rock.

Living Materials: at the centre of it all

Working with living materials became a natural continuation of my exploration, through terrariums and later, mossariums.

I was drawn to the relationship between moss, rock, and miniature plants, small ecosystems built from fragments of the natural world.

Moss, in particular, revealed itself as an intuitive material: adaptable, resilient, and slowly transformative, growing across surfaces and reshaping them over time.

This led to a deeper fascination with its nature, not only how it behaves, but what it represents. Moss is one of the most ancient plant forms, emerging hundreds of millions of years ago, carrying a quiet connection to the earliest life on land.

Together, these materials form more than objects, they become living systems, evolving over time.

A glass jar with a lid sits on a windowsill, containing preserved moss and a red 3d printed hand sculpture.
A close-up of a red, spiky, netted item resembling a glove or sculpture, resting on green moss inside a transparent container or glass surface.

3D printing makes it possible.

My background and passion for 3D modelling and character creation naturally led me here. Designing digitally has always been a way for me to explore form, imagination, and storytelling, but bringing those creations into the physical world opens up entirely new possibilities.

Introducing a 3D printer into the process has allowed me to experiment with structure, texture, and function in ways that directly interact with living materials. It’s still a learning process, and I’m constantly exploring what works and what doesn’t, but that’s part of the excitement.

La Semilla Salvaje is as much about discovery as it is about creation, and 3D printing is the tool that allows these ideas to take shape and grow into something real.

A decorative green elephant sculpture made of interconnected lattice-like material, placed on a flat stone surface.
A sculpture of a seated, contemplative human figure 3d printed and made from a lattice-like material, placed on a flat stone.
A green apple and a yellow banana in a green 3d printed decorative basket placed on a wooden surface.

What comes next?

La Semilla Salvaje truly is that wild seed just beginning to emerge, still unfolding, even to me.

What started as a wild idea has begun to take root and form, but it’s still in its infancy, an exploration in progress.

And yet, something new is definitely emerging here, an art form that invites a different way of relating to nature, where digital and organic elements don’t sit apart but grow together and evolve over time.

It feels quiet. Alive. And a little unexpected.

This journey is still unfolding, and I’m excited to begin sharing the process with you.

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