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Two projects whose final versions exist next semester.
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using jelly printing techniques in the lab… and doing the things I wasn’t suppose to do
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Glycerol soaked pellicle. Playing with how hydration of the material affects the image you laser cut onto it.
The mycelium tortoise shell is meant to be a functional object that can serve many uses. I see it living in the garden as a sort of “lawn ornament” that will be overtaken by local plant life and possibly serve as a shelter for small animals and bugs. I’d love to sprout fruiting bodies from it in a controlled space so that they might form legs to stand it up as a vessel for holding a plant of some other thing. I can also imagine it being worn as a hat or used as a basket for foraging.
Embossed Bacterial Cellulose
The idea was to create a bacteria cellulose sheet and then print onto that an illustration that describes the bacteria’s history; how they were created and indeed how they would perish. I imagined a tome of sorts combining a scientific diagram of the process with imagery representing aspects of the growth cycles.
Healed mycelium clay bricks
Do you remember carving little love hearts into a tree? This is like that, except for it’s carved out of inanimate material and then life is added into the wound. In this case the flesh like quality of the agar and red pigment of the Ecoli give it the feeling of a bloody wound.
Composite columns made of mycelium composite.
This piece is in conversation with my bacterial cellulose project, “Cellular Portrait.” I was once again inspired by the relationship between the source material and the final product, so I have created another sculpture of my mother’s face to reference the connections between the different phases of mycelium.
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For this piece, I formed my mother’s face out of bacterial cellulose. Throughout the process of growing the cellulose, I was thinking about the relationship between the original pellicle to the larger one I was growing and how it mimicked a parent and child relationship.
For this project, I was thinking of the microcosmic vs. microcosmic. There is an uncountable amount of cells in a given spot of Ecoli on a Petri dish, similar to the amount of stars in the sky. I think of bacterial colonies as a little family and began thinking of the familial relationships inherent in horoscopes. My mother gave me my star sign: five little stars in a vast universe.
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A bacterial cellulose tray for holding a small stone.