Fungal thinking . What can we learn from the collaborative ways plants and fungi communicate and help each other?
Symbiosis; mutually beneficial transactions, sharing vital resources made of complex underground networks of caring and collaborating. I am led by continual curiosity and wonder, being with nature and the landscape, foraging, planting, harvesting, and investigating. Often returning with as many questions, and as many teachings after each encounter whilst trying to find a balanced way of navigating this intricate responsibility working with, and in nature. These below the soil teachings are reflected in the slow pace of the process, the material connection to the land and the location, and my relationship with these actions.
Ongoing exploration and collaboration with landscape, location, plants and mushrooms .
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Plant toned cyanotype on mushroom paper.
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'Unfolding Variations Part II' Plant toned cyanotype on mushroom paper.
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'Unfolding Variations Part III'. Plant toned cyanotype on mushroom paper.
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'Unfolding Variations Part IV'
Plant toned cyanotype on mushroom paper.
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'Unfolding Variations Part II' Plant toned cyanotype on mushroom paper.
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‘Umwelt’ Part I
Lumen Print
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‘Umwelt’ Part II
Lumen Print
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‘Umwelt’ Part V
Lumen Print
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‘Umwelt’ Part III
Lumen Print
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'Molt patterns'
Anthotype
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‘Crown Shyness’
Silver gelatine pinhole photographs, on tannin-stained paper’
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'Salix'
Plant-toned cyanotype on mushroom paper
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'Birds Never Get Funerals'
Plant toned cyanotype on mushroom paper
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Trametes Versicolour
Film developed with plant developer
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Mycena
Film developed with plant developer
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Betula pendula,
Cyanotype on mushroom paper
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Tycanol Wood, Wales
Riso print on mushroom paper
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Fomitopsis betulina mushroom paper
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Coreopsis
Cyanotype on mushroom paper
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Cyanotype experimets on mushroom paper
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Cyanotype experimets on mushroom paper
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Plant toned cyanotype tests on mushroom paper
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Liquid emulsion tests on mushroom paper
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Mending, False Turkeytail
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Plant toned cyanotype on mushroom paper
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Cyanotype on Fomitopsis betulina
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Plant toned cyanotype on mushroom paper.