Exploding universe 0.0

2021

Lion's mane mushrooms, secretary desk, dried mushrooms from Herbarium Collection, Machine Learning generated images printed on paper. The ML images were generated from a training dataset of 12,567 herbarium specimen photographs. Concerned with how we make sense of the world, how we acquire knowledge, how we represent it and store it. Using Fungi as a proxy to reflect upon such concepts. Fungi is present everywhere yet what is known about such organisms is nothing in comparison to other Kingdoms.

Exploding universe 0.0, white lion's mane mushrooms growing from plastic bags on shelves inside an open dark wooden cabinet

Exploding universe 0.0, cabinet shelves with shaggy white mushrooms in bags beside a desk section with cubbies and small white boxes

Exploding universe 0.0, installation view, secretary desk and cupboard with lion's mane mushrooms in bags, dried fungus on top, photos scattered on floor

Exploding universe 0.0, installation view, open wooden cabinet with white fungal growths and grid of black-and-white mushroom photos on the floor

Exploding universe 0.0, overhead view of black-and-white fungus photo prints on gray floor with live mushroom blocks and small specimen boxes