ERI Fellow Maria Whiteman is exploring the relationships between fungi, our bodies and other organisms in the natural ecosystem in a two-part art series featuring Indiana fungi and climate change.
The artwork is motivated by the desire to foster a greater understanding of the role fungi will play in a rapidly changing climate and will strive to provide a new appreciation of the “deep, shared ecology” by examining the complex relationships of interspecies life, death, and decomposition. The work will contain and use fungi as part of the conceptual link, resulting in a living artwork that integrates fungi as the building material and alludes to the multifaceted potential fungi have in our environment.
BioFungiArt will demonstrate the various multitudes in which Whiteman can form and implement visually engaging art, illustrating the properties of fungi and our interconnectedness to the ecology and biodiversity of the mycelia world.
