digesting minerals to create soil for the future, is to feel in every sense John Muir’s quote “pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.” My role is to observe, to study, to wonder, and then to make large and visible the building blocks that help to shape this world. I use paint to speak about networks, roots, the spreading systems of information, and open them up to the naked eye. I see the repetition of form and pattern at every scale, from a lightning strike to our own vascular system, and I know we are
so attracted to these forms because they are inside us as well as all around us. Tere is comfort in understanding how tethered we are to each other, and to all life forms: the dendritic patterns of these enormous organisms of mycelial connection are mirrored in our own bodies. I seek to elucidate and clarify these relationships, to emphasize our shared part in shaping this world. Mutualistic symbiosis, the ability of organisms of different
species to cooperate for their common good, is the signature of life on this planet. I am interested in the idea of cooperation
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