#1 - Gemshroom

Date Created: 19/01/2023 - - Thoughts: While making this piece, I began thinking about the value of my art, and how it is subject to... well, subjectivity. Is my art Trash or Treasure? That depends on whoever is reading this. I began thinking about what else in life is subjective, what do some call Trash that others call Treasure? Mushrooms appear to have been the thought that came to my mind. We as a species used to be very closely connected with fungi, using it for a whole manner of different reasons. We certainly considered it a Treasure. Yet, in the modern world, a large majority of the population have developed a sort of Mycophobia, seemingly because of the elongated disconnect we'v...View all