Fungal Siege

This installation is a response to the landscape and natural elements that I had found at the site before intervening. In particular, I was drawn to two large clusters of mushrooms that were growing out of a dead tree and the mound of earth that was giving birth to this natural process. I created these "fungal" pieces and arranged them along the side of the mound to echo the ways in which nature reclaims and consumes unoccupied spaces. In this case, I was revisiting a space that I had remembered as being barren throughout my childhood. To return and see it completely enveloped by vegetation and fungus made me realize the ways in which nature is constantly trying to reclaim spaces that have been appropriated by human activity.

wood, fire. (2020)