Mushroom Spore Prints: Mycologial Art #ArtTuesday

via Art the Science

Massachusetts-based artist Madge Evers works in a surprising medium: mushroom spore prints. Each of her exquisite works starts with a fungal form—either grown in her garden or foraged from the woods and fields that surround her home. Evers gently places her muse upon her canvas, then waits until the specimen starts to release its spores. These tiny objects—about 16 billion of them in a typical field mushroom—float through the air and settle on the canvas below, leaving behind gorgeous, shadowlike traces.

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