The Mushroom Hunters
Tuesday 6 November 2018
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The Mushroom Hunters is a novel immersive installation created past times Berlin-based artist, Clare Celeste Borsch, inspired too named afterwards a beautiful feminist poem past times Neil Gaiman. Created from intricately hand-cut imagery, the assemblage of industrial plant life too animate beingness invites the viewer into a hallucinogenic too immersive ecosystem. What a beautiful tribute Clare has created.
"Before the flintstone club, or flintstone butcher’s tools,
The start tool of all was a sling for the baby
to maintain our hands free
and something to set the berries too the mushrooms in,
the roots too the proficient leaves, the seeds too the crawlers."
Neil Gaiman, The Mushroom Hunters
A picayune background on the poem. The Mushroom Hunters was recited past times Neil Gaiman's wife, instrumentalist Amanda Palmer at the Universe inwards Verse —an eventide of science-inspired poems read past times artists, writers, scientists, too musicians, purpose protestation too purpose celebration, alongside all proceeds benefiting the Natural Resources Defense Council. The poem, tying together an eventide whose unspoken all the same deliberate subject was the ofttimes untold history of women inwards science. To listen the poesy form inwards it's entirety, click here.
"Clare Celeste Börsch has been assimilating to dissimilar cultures too environments her entire life – having lived inwards Brazil, the US, Italy, Honduras, Argentine Republic too Germany. Rich alongside texture too detail, each composition pays tribute to her capacity to transform her archive of experiences into hallucinogenic ecosystems of their own."
The installation is opened upwardly for viewing until Nov 16th inwards Berlin. You tin electronic mail the creative mortal to mass a individual viewing through her website.
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