Grass is the New Medicine (2026)

This work was made as part of final presentation of Het Resort’s Pilot program presentation “Everywhere to be found”.

Following my main research subject of physical freedom in our exploitive capitalistic society, I found my way back to healing, rest, and recovery as a form of resistance*. The healing knowledge has existed in human history for thousands of years through passed-down oral and written information of different herbs around us. In the book “Donguibogam” that was written in the 1600s, so many plants easily found in the Netherlands are mentioned as an effective treatment for stomach pain, respiratory problems, and inflammation in our body. I combined this knowledge with the main theme of the Pilot program’s final presentation “Geocache**” to spread the information in an entertaining and relaxing way by strolling through the Pioenpark and finding these little “treasures” along the way.*

* Tricia Hersey’s book “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto” is a book about the understanding that the most effective way to go against the destructive capitalism is to take proactive and intentional rest for our exhausted body and learn how to heal through our ancestral knowledge and listening to our body.

**Geocaching is a real-world treasure-hunt game where people use GPS coordinates to find hidden containers (called caches), and they often log their finds online.

Box 1. Plantago Asiatica
with the illustration of the plant “Plantago Asiastica” with the information about it’s herbal healing methods from old korean medicine book “Donguibogam”, on the back of the box, there is an engraved coordinate for the next cache box.

hand-made rubber wood boxes, hand-engraved coordinates on the back,  laser engraved plywood cards, size: 7x10cm

Box 2. Dandelion
Hidden at the back of the information sign at one of the entrance of the Oosterpark, also containing another herbal information about using this plant to heal your body.

hand-made rubber wood boxes, hand-engraved coordinates on the back,  laser engraved plywood cards, size: 7x10cm

<Project Credit>
Project lead by Dirk Hoogeveen Bronsgeest  | Production facilitator: Indira de Boer | Workshop offered by MOC(Moshpit of Creation) | Wood work help by Sam