Entangling With Relational Ecologies, 2023
‘Entangling with Relational Ecologies’ explores foraging as a means for humans entanglement with ecology. In searching for mushrooms in different landscapes, foraging synchronises our bodies with the symbiosis of fungal existence.
Thinking of place as an interconnected mycelial network can uncover the spaces where temporal rhythms, cycles and seasons intertwine with species emergence and encounter. Engaging in such encounters can repair separations between Western culture and nature, enabling humans to move, grow and think-with non-human worlds.
Documenting intimate interactions between my body, fungi and situated environments through paper-making allows for the vital relationships that network between us to be traced.
Exploration of ecology through mushroom foraging
Polypore paper series
A4 / A5 papers made from recycled waste materials (egg cartons, cardboard), foraged southern cinnabar polypores (pycnoporus coccineus), various native plant and fungus species.
Making paper with fungi materialises experiences of moving-with different landscapes. Each paper is a trace of synchronicity with the rhythms and patterns of place; it’s seasons, cycles and intersecting networks of human and non-human kin.
These topographical worlds embody a slow, arduous and ephemeral practice. Production is wholly dependent on the temporal emergence of fungi and the earthly periods in which they co-ordinate and thrive within.
