Fruiting Bodies, 2018 - 2020
The work in this series begins with creating mushroom spore prints. Spores are tiny, reproductive cells that allow fungus to replicate and grow.
The prints made with mushroom spores are generally used to help identify the genus of a specimen. On paper, they manifest as dusty replicas of the original forms. Because the initial images I gather are impermanent, I cut arrange them into collages before photographing them. Born of actual living organisms, the collages point to larger patterns and systems in the natural world, at once suggesting the furious division of cells, and the eternal expanse of deep space. I am equally compelled by the biology, and by the lyrical mysteries of nature intermingling in the ghostly topography of these impressions.
Untitled, face-mounted, 20 x 20” Giclee prints, 2018-2020
