Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Alicia Ferrara

Metallic Fungus
2018

Cast aluminum and ceramics
  
The installation Metallic Fungus plays on the idea of new forms of life gaining consciousness. The aluminum fungus grows out of a living tree blurring the line between what is living and dead and what materials we would commonly associate with being alive. The work displays the beginnings of an aluminum based life slowly creeping undetected out of familiar carbon based tree. It remains unclear if there is a mutualistic or parasitic relationship between the two.

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