MULTI SENSORY DESIGN
“Our present global crisis is more profound than any previous historical crisis; hence our solutions must be more drastic. Plants and a renewal of our Archaic relationship with plants could serve as the organizational model for life in the twenty-first century, just as the computer operates as the dominant model of the late twentieth century.
… This shift in viewpoint would enable us to see plants as more than food, shelter, clothing, or even sources of education and religion; they would become models of a process. They are, after all, exemplars of symbiotic connectedness and efficient resource recycling and management.”
(McKenna T. (1992), Food of the Gods: The Research for the Original Tree of Knowledge, A Radical History of Plants, Drugs and Human Evolution, London: Rider)
I believe people often close their eyes for the ugly side of things. Therefore, I am looking for a way to cheat their perceptions. Using smell as an underpinning instrument I will be exploring the various applications and significance of fungi in our everyday life.
By creating a multi-sensory picture of mould and mushrooms, I want to show that what is considered disgusting and a symbol of death and decay, could actually create and heal.
Open your senses for the beauty of it!
 |
| New Worlds, 02.03.2011 "Fungi, together with the Bacteria, are the 'decomposers' of our environment and they are just as important as the 'producers' the green plants." http://www.rspbliverpool.org.uk/Fungi.htm |
CLICK HERE TO BE A PART OF THE PROJECT
