"Sporolation"

"Sporolation"


2014 Acrylic on wood 5”x15” ~ burned in Thomas fire

portrays a man being lifted from a field of entheogenic fungi toward the arched vault of the heavens by a shimmering umbilicus of mushroom spores winding their glittering way toward the Sun. The man wears a loincloth depicting the subject of the painting itself: at the top, a Sun, then Man, then Mushroom and Finally Earth.

Mushroom spores levitate into the furthest reaches of our atmosphere and beyond. They can survive the vacuum of space, which has led some to propose theories that early earth was colonized by mushro
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