ö i ö
island in island
Small, I crouch under the low hanging branches of the pines
among the ferns and tall grasses
swimming toward an island of stone
I scramble onto a ledge
and find myself, a small fruiting body,
adrift in an alien landscape
I am on an island
of greys and greens and yellows and blacks
Looking out at an archipelago that expands
deep into the woods
Giant, I tower over
A sea of mysterious creatures
who cling to the rock as I do
Island in island in island
ö i ö i ö
Bodies of water and earth
and in-between
Who is the colonizer when we are all
islands
There are 3 main types of lichen growth forms:
- crustose - crustlike, growing tight against the substrate.
- foliose - leaflike, with flat sheets of tissue not tightly bound.
- fruticose - free-standing branching tubes.
But also sometimes see additional subcategorizations such as
- squamulose - tightly clustered and slightly flattened pebble-like units.
- leprose- powdery or dust-like appearance
- gelatinous
or hybrid forms that have more than one of these features
Interesting to look at how lichen moves (grows) in space as opposed to human movement
Is this a map? Is this a walk?
thoughts to expand on:
- Mapping Impermanence
- boundaries/borders
- what is a fruiting body
- lichen are forest mermaids- a symbiotic combination of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria
- lichen plays a role in soil formation because they cause the rocks that they live on to breakdown slowly over time- interrelationship between the forests/seas/deserts
- my connection to the water and the land
- how moving through space relates to sculptural form
- how do lichen move through space
