My explorations of the fluid shapeshifting creativity of Nature has evolved into several studies of Pomegranates. #paintedwithtar #tarfromtheLaBreaTarPits #scienceinspiresart
POOF! It finally happened. The hidden mysteries are revealed. The interior surface of the decaying spongey fungus appears to be covered with countless spores. I’m spreading them around under various oak trees in hopes of many more giant fungal eggs popping up in the future. More family photos!
Our mysterious fungal planetoid is showing its age in a plate tech tonic cracking. Anticipation grows around this shift from being melon like to being more geologic in its form. I will try not to miss the moment of its Big Puff, releasing it hopeful mist of spores into the future. I would so like to welcome its progeny to the Folly Bowl after next year’s rains.
The continuing saga of our Puff Ball Fungus: It is now larger than a human brain but it continues to resist my efforts to teach it to read. It shows no reaction to money; another sign of not being human. I’m sure it’s silence is only the result of my inability to hear what it is saying. A cloud of tiny gnat acolytes fly around it praising its scent. Perhaps they have a nose for it’s fungal language.
“Dawn’s Early Light”, La Brea Tar on panel, 16” x 20”, will be in the Pasadena Art Alliance Auction. It has been made with the primordial residue of early life on earth gathered from the La Brea Tar Pits. The luminous aspirational image was inspired by the many driving trips I’ve made through the Southern Californian deserts.
