This is the first full installation work that utilizes my processes of casting and working with Fungi as a collaborator in my work. Within this work I display cast fungi mason jars suspended in space and time that must be navigated through. Echoing the mountains of my home the audience is confronted with having to pass through this undulating grid of living and actively dying organisms. These casted fungi jars are in a state of stress and active dying to be viewed and interacted with by the audience. 

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The installation continues to a quilt chronicling the life of a child screen printed printed in coal form film photography taken over 20 years. Within the baby quilt is an inoculated substrate. The form beneath the quilt is made up of this material and will continue to grow beneath the surface of the quilt. Constantly changing form and pushing against its constraints the question remains with the fungi grow through its barrier or will stay contained? 

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The final stop with in the installation is a spot on the Fungi in who I have collaborated with and them in various states of growth and decay. This moment of reflection and understanding allows for the audience to better understand who and what I'm working so intimately with.