About the Artist
MIKE ODULANA is the founder of Moobience, a biophilic design firm merging nature with modern spaces, and Plant Dad, a brand known for sustainable terrariums, moss walls, and kokedama. As a creative-artist-entrepreneur, he designs environments that enhance well-being and mental restoration. Living with metal rods and screws from neck to spine, he knows firsthand the power of healing spaces. Through his own personal experience with pain and recovery, he's discovered the deep connection between nature and well-being. Now, he's on a mission to share what he's learned with the world.
His work invites visitors to pause, reflect, and engage with the present moment, creating spaces that don’t just look beautiful — but feel like a mental massage. Moobience has collaborated with brands like Verizon, The Lay Out, and independent galleries across the tri-state area to bring restorative design into both public and intimate settings. Blurring the line between art and wellness.
Mike continues to build experiences that center restoration, stillness, and inner balance—offering moments of harmony, one space at a time.
Biophilia: Nature in Art, The Living Gallery invites you to step into a space where art breathes — where nature and design collide to create something alive, intentional, and restorative. Biophilia: Nature in Art is an immersive, zero-waste gallery experience, made of 80% recycled material, & explores the deep connection between humanity and the natural world. Presented by Moobience, and curated by Abigail Alabre, this curated showcase invites you to reflect, recharge, and reconnect through art and atmosphere.
Designed to engage the senses and awaken stillness, the gallery features work that honors the organic, celebrates sustainability, and inspires restoration — both personal and environmental. As you move through the Living Gallery, you’re encouraged to experience beauty in its rawest forms — through color, scent, texture, and sound.
Everything from the drinks, music frequencies, song affirmations, and room scent was curated with scientific backing to promote relaxation, lowered anxiety, decreased fatigue, promote better sleep, and rewire the mind into openness and comfort.
This is more than an exhibit. It’s a return to what grounds us. A reminder that restoration begins with reconnection. Welcome to your well-being journey though Biophilia. The pieces below were featured in the gallery and are now available for purchase.
Description:
Seven miniature moss frames presents a visual and material gradient—moving from sandy browns through golds and forest greens, ending in a stark smoky matte black. Each frame contains preserved, no-longer living, moss and natural textures, with the final frame featuring vivid orange and black moss paired with a weathered wood fragment. It is less a decorative series than a tribute to the various terrains of earth & a critique on the potential human impacts on those ecosystems.
Investment: 95–130
(based on custom size & features)
Title: Mount No. 1 & 2: Epicurean Duo - 2025
Up-cycled Material: Living room table & decorative table stand.
Description:
Two live Staghorn Fern clusters (native to Southeast Asia and Australia) one mounted atop a 3-foot circular resin adorned table with twine. The other, mounted to an up-cycled table stand with silver string. The ferns are fixed to a moss and soil base using traditional methods—string and small nails—blending horticultural craft with sculptural form.
Epicureanism is a school of thought founded by a Greek philosopher Epicurus, that emphases finding happiness through moderation, simplicity, and friendship. It's not about unrestrained pleasure, but rather a pursuit of tranquility and freedom from suffering through understanding the physical world.
Mount No. 1 & No. 2 rivals the traditional art of taxidermy and shows how a plant can anchor a piece of furniture, turning a table into a habitat and its pedestal into part of artwork.
Investment: 175 & 430
(Small and Large)
Title: Sustainable Planter No 1: Kokedama Tower - 2025
Description:
Standing over a foot tall, this Maranta leuconeura ‘Ornata’ (Prayer Plant, native to Brazil) is rooted in a large kokedama—a traditional Japanese technique of potting plants involving suspending roots in a combination of earth and moss then wrapping with string. This sustainable planting method eliminates the need for conventional pots, allowing the plant to grow naturally while creating a living sculpture.
Kokedama Tower emphasizes harmony between craft, design, ecology, and scale — and its completely compostable! It rests on a bed of marble in a 24K gold decorated porcelain bowl.
Investment: 250
(includes 24k Porcelain holder)
Title: Last Layers: Final Spray
Description:
These spray-painted floral pieces mark the closing chapter for Plant Dad’s use of aerosols. They are packed with toxic chemicals and carcinogens that impact artists and the environment. These were painted in 2024 and adorned with moss during the Project 14C Special Artist Residency (2025), they explore the elemental forces of earth, growth, sun, and water through color and form. Originally conceived as potential commercial products—these works transformed over time into intentional statements. Featured alongside medium and small terrariums, they received high praise in the Jersey City Times, signaling a meaningful shift toward more thoughtful, sustainable artistry.
Investment: 165 - 285
(based on custom adornments & features)
Title: Woven Forms No. 1-12 - 2022
Description:
This 12-piece wooden wall installation was laser-cut by Mauve Interiors from original plant-inspired drawings by Moobience. Each panel interlocks into a woven structure that mimics botanical forms, emphasizing the therapeutic potential of shape and pattern. Left raw and untreated, the wood remains highly water-sensitive—underscoring its organic origin and vulnerability. Woven Forms reflects a commitment to biophilic design, in a digital age, using abstraction and material honesty to promote well-being through visual and spatial connection to nature.
Investment: 150 (each)
Title: The Living Biophilic Banquet - 2025
Customs Available including Terrariums and Kokedama
Up-cycled Material: Banquet table sourced from closed Forever 21 TSQ, seating pillows, cement treated podiums, and H&M planters turned upside down used as stands.
Description:
The Living Banquet is more than a table—it is an experience grounded in care, community, and natural abundance. The banquet table hosts a vibrant collection of terrariums and kokedama with centerpieces on slabs of rose and clear quartz representing divine connection, purity, and unconditional love. Each crystal stand has coated edges in 24K Gold and Sterling Silver. Each terrarium a miniature ecosystem—while a towering 6-foot Australian Tree Fern rises at its side, casting soft shade over the meal below.
Guests gather beneath soft candle light of handmade candles that diffuse scents of geranium and blood orange during a four-course dinner, seated among layers of moss, glass, and foliage. But what grows here is more than plants. The table is alive with the energy of people who build beauty from effort—the artists, curators, cooks, and hosts whose hands shape every detail. Like the terrariums, it all thrives through balance, patience, and intention.
This banquet honors labor not as something behind the scenes, but as something to be celebrated, witnessed, and shared—where nourishment comes not only from food, but from the presence of life growing at the center of the table.
Moobience and Plant Dad are both brands that have taken a stance against plastic waste, pollution, and environmental conservation. All cups used are compostable and biodegradable. Materials have all been ethically sourced. Most art is made from over 80% recycled materials, crafted with compostable/biodegradable materials, and all suppliers use eco-friendly practices sourced in non-enviornmentally compromising ways. The dining experience was made with a zero-waste menu meaning there was no discard of potato skins, or edible items.
The artist worked tirelessly to conserve, reduce, source, and reuse things locally. This includes reusing nails, picking up and saving each small marble pebble and minuscule tuft of moss.
Sofas are up-cycled finds with help of @stoopingJC, Artist outfit features recycled jeans reimagined and sewn by @EANHQ, shoes are purchased second hand from a @IamHarrisonCrite Closet Sale. Banquet table, podiums, and benches were sourced from a closing Forever 21 in Time square. Pillows at banquet table were sourced from a neighbor who was looking to get rid of them.
Special thanks to the hard working individuals who helped bring this dream to life. They composted, recycled, stayed up past their bedtimes, provided moral and spiritual support, and tediously helped to bring the best parts of the gallery to life.
Photos: Tae Nichol
www.taenichol.com