Racso Jugarap made one of those life decisions after moving to Brussels that few of us dare to make: He gave up his job to become a full-time artist.

Jugarap (pictured) had moved from his native Philippines to Germany in 2009 to work as a chef. He relocated for work a few times and wound up in Brussels about three years ago. And then he started creating wholly unique works of art.

He started with a base of wire woven to create web-like structures. Then he covered them with a plaster mix. The material hardens quickly, meaning he had only seconds to work with the hot substance. This leant the work an organic quality, less symmetrical than biological.

This look was not lost on Jugarap, who called the oval-shaped pieces “ostrich egg” (pictured below). Though he had no formal education in the arts, he did have persistence. Targeting more than 200 galleries in Brussels, he finally got a few of them to sit up and take notice.

“My ostrich egg is now one of the my best-selling pieces,” the 29-year-old says. Also popping up in the windows of sellers of fine home furnishings, “it’s scattered across Europe and the US”.