I am Orion Hansen, founder and design lead of Sentient Spaces, a ceramic 3D printing and design practice focused on returning ecology to the built environment. The work begins in architecture, where I came to understand that we construct our relationship with the world, and any real change to that relationship has to be made in the architecture itself. That conviction carried me into the world of mycelium, through the work of turning an invasive species in Namibia into both a food source and a building material, and finally into clay. Contemporary architecture is largely plain, modular, repeatable, manufactured. We have lost the artisan, and in losing the artisan we have narrowed our relationship with beauty in the very places we live. Printed clay is how I argue we change that paradigm. My forms are biologically inspired and drawn toward the curvature and vibrancy of art nouveau, intricate to a degree no mold or wheel could reach, and they are never only ornament: the vessels water from within, carrying an ancient irrigation principle inside a new technology. What I am building toward is that language at architectural scale, facades and atriums that carry habitat for plants, insects, and birds, buildings that hold life as well as people and that ground you in something beyond themselves. The pieces are deliberately domestic in scale. They are a signal, and what they signal is a built environment worth living inside of, and a world I intend to blanket in life.