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.
MessageCollection: In Selene's Orbit
This series depicts planetary bodies and is named for Selene was the Greek goddess of the moon. Each image is made with spores, the tiny reproductive particles made within a mushroom's gills or pores. When ready, and at astonishing speeds, mushrooms use the ballistospore discharge mechanism to release millions (of tons) of powdery spores into the air. The spores fly and float; they sometimes travel the world in rain clouds to every level of earth’s atmosphere where they may ride currents and become part of an ecosystem, including a forest's rain feedback loop. Sometimes they simply land close to home and sometimes they form imaginary planets.
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