QUIET Fruit

Their beginnings are silent as their threads move through the soil beneath the surface. The cycle calls for a union with time, nearby roots, and the decay of the forest floor. As their fruits emerge, they will exhale their spores into the air to perform the process once more. Quiet Fruit is an evolving and growing body of work about fungi, spores and regeneration. 

Fruiting bodies appear to exhale, releasing spores over the ubiquitous characters of the forest floor, eventually settling on the glass of my scanner, creating a shadow of the subject and visually mapping the path and abundance of the spores, echoing the entangled relationship of the understory's ecology.