Madge Evers
Haydenville, MA
Inspired by the regenerative cycles of growth and decomposition, I create abstract works on paper in collaboration with plants and fungi.
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Blue Jay - Above the Fray; mushroom spores and gesso on altered book page
From a salvaged set of naturalist and artist John Audubon’s Birds of America, I cover Audubon’s work in black except for the birds. Over this, I place pressed plants and foraged mushrooms which release some of the spores contained in their gills. The powdery spores fall and mark the paper. The birds, some extinct, emerge in a new context.
- Subject Matter: birds
- Collections: Hollow Bones
