This mould has an impact spanning soil, land, air, and sea: in the soil she decomposes organic matter; when disturbed, she is transported by wind and rivers to the ocean, where she must adapt, and transforms into an eater of coral. She is an adaptive traveller: a shifting, cosmic palette of fabrics evoke her passage through air and ocean, bringing to mind the similarity between drifting spores and the dispersal of stars.
Brought to life by nexus.techne and Simon D. A. Clark
Brainstorming
roots without ground, words by nexus.techne
she’s carrying home on her body because she has no fixed home,
Bubbles blown from the mouth read as exhalation, tying directly to lungs. capable of becoming something new when it lands and bursts.
fragile, near-weightless,
spores are inhaled and settle in human breath the same way memory or story settles in you uninvited.
bubble is a tiny stowaway launching itself with no control over where it lands,
existence is the passage itself; it has no destination, only travel and then rupture.
The light fabric in the hair.
This is also a nice contrast device: the soil/moss is fixed and heavy (past, origin), while the fabric is loose and airborne (future, dispersal) — the whole body becomes a timeline from earth to wind.
Behind the Scenes
fungus