Botanical and Floral Art- Open Galley CIC 2025

Have you ever looked closely at a mushroom's mycelium, at what reaches down towards the earth as the fruit reaches up above the surface? Mycelium are the hair-like nutrient-gathering part of the mushroom, a complex web that seeks beneath the soil for decay. 

Looking at a slice of the earth, the way the mycelium darts around rocks, cuts through turf and pools in gaps is very similar to how water runs over stone, cutting rivulets, combining and separating. Like deer walkways through ferns, these pathways look different depending on your view point, but a cross section looks remarkably similar. 

I wanted to capture these landed echoes in two pieces I submitted to the Botanical and Floral Art Group Exhibition at the Open Gallery CIC.