Overgrow was created for Schloss Hollenegg for Design, an Austrian residency program located in a historic castle, that supports young emerging designers with the aim to create space for design research, thinking, and critique.

Inspired by the lush and verdant vines that spill down from covered walkways, staircases, and towers around the property, the mural transforms the castle’s Tapestry Room into an immersive space where the distinction between the decorated interior and the wilderness beyond is obscured.

While referencing the presence of historical landscape wallpaper throughout the castle, the mural serves as both a romantic suggestion of man’s relationship with nature and an ominous reminder that all buildings will become ruins eventually, overtaken by the untamable.