2023, 16” x 20”

Organic cotton and hemp dyed with maddar, eucalyptus, indigo and marigolds, potato dextrose agar, inoculated with P. ostreatus while also growing Trichoderma sp. and A. niger, and embroidered with text.

Selected text from “Transform”, by Beata Tsosie-Peña, in Restor(y)ing Soil: Facilitating Succession Post-wildfires.

The text reads:

… and this warming is a warning to your legalities. Extinction does not recognized self-appointed dominance. And your laws will never be of these lands. This place, your systems of power over lives will not continue are not a part of forever, not a part of now.

and i think about how fire is transformational, can speed change destroy indiscriminately, like a storm, or slower and controlled - sprouting new growth. Self resurrection forests of symbiotic revolutionary collapse forcing nurturing collaboration. There are places where heat turns mountains to glass, there are places where wildflowers and dormant diversity take root…