by Austin Chia, Leyi Guo, Mantis Harper-Blanco, Katherine Luna, Maia Malakoff, Nadia Nazar, Jingwen Zhang How can we practice care…
Using mycelium as a way to remember, a way to reconnect – but how does it feel to be forgotten?
The piece consists of bacterial cellulose, grown from G.hansenii cells, with an image in cyanotype and formed onto a baby doll. It’s a memorial, both thinking about the children and babies in Gaza and also the children who have been impacted by floodwater.
Bacterial drawings of E.coli were used to create short animations tracking the growth of cells and allowing the texture of the cell cultures to take the form of motions of rain and notions of my homeland.