Saturn is an artist, activist and researcher whose practice emerges from their neurodivergent perspective and daily collaboration and symbiosis with 200+ plants, microbial cultures, and technological systems in their home-laboratory. Through investigations spanning poetry, video and media art, science fiction, bioart, speculative design and post-humanist practices they explore how art becomes regeneration rather than representation. Their current work addresses interconnected invisibilities: from microbial processes to marginalized communities and untold stories, recognizing them all as active agents in earthly transformation. Naming their neurodivergence is also an act of giving visibility by reframing the erasure that often surrounds mental health and different ways of perceiving.
Saturn's practice has undergone constant metamorphosis, from early formations in poetry, material painting, performance and video installations to their current practice.
Their transdisciplinary background includes NBS (Nature-Based Solutions), media art, virtual and digital design and experimental cinema entangled together by explorations in digital and virtual realms as well as a profound observation of the ecosystems they inhabited.
Time spent with curanderos in the Canary Islands and within eco-communities across Europe, alongside deep engagement with place-based ecological knowledge systems, has deepened their understanding of reciprocal care between species.
Co-founding Viridixima, Saturn works toward futures where waste is transformed through multispecies collaboration and nothing is disposed of but everything cycles through states of use and regeneration.
Aaron sees creative practice as a tool that brings together action, responsibility, and justice within the ecosystem. He co-founded VIRIDIXIMA, a studio created to put ideals into practice.
Observing nature, writing, building things — these are pursuits Aaron has followed since childhood. His design education gave him the freedom to explore the what of design: setting briefs, exploring alternatives and creating objects where concept and intention came first. Alongside this freedom, he deepened his interest in biomimetics, leading to projects such as medical devices, cameras with biosensors, and animal-inspired vehicles.
Professional life shifted the focus toward the how of design. In the field of product design, he built over ten years of experience in both styling and engineering, learning how to deliver objects shaped by complex technical, ergonomic, and industrial requirements. He worked on projects in sporting goods, safety equipment, and motorsport: first within multidisciplinary teams in studios and companies, later as a consultant supporting R&D departments.
With the foundation of VIRIDIXIMA, the cycle came full circle. Here, Aaron returned to the what of design — deciding what to create and why — now enriched by years of experience with the how. This balance allows him to merge technical expertise with vision and ethics.
And if he hadn’t become a designer? Probably an ethologist, a writer, or a mechanic — three passions that not only inspire his work, but also remain part of his life