ABSTRACT
In the early 1990s I started producing a series of sculptural projects that were made by growing and manipulating fungal tissue. These artworks were created by infusing live fungal cells into a pulverized cellulose medium, which would serve as both food and framework for the fungal cells to grow on. In about a week the aggregate solidified as a result of the fungi’s natural tendency to join together smaller pieces of its tissue into a larger constituent whole. The fungus has the other exceptional ability of being able to adhere to, and possibly engulf, any other materials with which it comes in contact.1
