Mycozoophyte artificialii: Dance of the Flanged Mongrels - Christie Lange
Hybridity spawn’s organisms’ unseen. Defying categorization, they move on land like snails and slugs; yet their forms are reminiscent of marine organisms.
Mycelial influences adorn their exteriors resembling delicate systems. In others, Mycelial iterations are captured within lacelike flanges. Lichen-like markings, cloaca’s and protuberates heighten the mystery of the mongrel organisms, what are they? Where did they come from? What do they do? In my imagination, I watch them for a while. Slow, humble movements allow my gaze to rest on their coloured, speckled skin. Life grows in their trails. Renewal. I realize, they are gracefully feasting across the humanized landscape.
Bio: Christie Lange is a sculptor and ceramicist. Through her arts practice she investigates biodiversity, hybridity and the agency of the non-human. Lange’s methodology employs practice-led research allowing for the coalescing of the material of clay with ideas of adaptation and evolution. These components fused in the hand of the artist birth hybrid inventions of the mycological, zoological and botanical. Her work tenderly examines refrains of redemption, restoration and renewal through material investigations merged with a mycelial imagination. Lange’s most recent work promotes the agency of the non-human, envisioning adaptation and hybridity as an alternate future.
Hybridity spawn’s organisms’ unseen. Defying categorization, they move on land like snails and slugs; yet their forms are reminiscent of marine organisms.
Mycelial influences adorn their exteriors resembling delicate systems. In others, Mycelial iterations are captured within lacelike flanges. Lichen-like markings, cloaca’s and protuberates heighten the mystery of the mongrel organisms, what are they? Where did they come from? What do they do? In my imagination, I watch them for a while. Slow, humble movements allow my gaze to rest on their coloured, speckled skin. Life grows in their trails. Renewal. I realize, they are gracefully feasting across the humanized landscape.
Bio: Christie Lange is a sculptor and ceramicist. Through her arts practice she investigates biodiversity, hybridity and the agency of the non-human. Lange’s methodology employs practice-led research allowing for the coalescing of the material of clay with ideas of adaptation and evolution. These components fused in the hand of the artist birth hybrid inventions of the mycological, zoological and botanical. Her work tenderly examines refrains of redemption, restoration and renewal through material investigations merged with a mycelial imagination. Lange’s most recent work promotes the agency of the non-human, envisioning adaptation and hybridity as an alternate future.
Hybridity spawn’s organisms’ unseen. Defying categorization, they move on land like snails and slugs; yet their forms are reminiscent of marine organisms.
Mycelial influences adorn their exteriors resembling delicate systems. In others, Mycelial iterations are captured within lacelike flanges. Lichen-like markings, cloaca’s and protuberates heighten the mystery of the mongrel organisms, what are they? Where did they come from? What do they do? In my imagination, I watch them for a while. Slow, humble movements allow my gaze to rest on their coloured, speckled skin. Life grows in their trails. Renewal. I realize, they are gracefully feasting across the humanized landscape.
Bio: Christie Lange is a sculptor and ceramicist. Through her arts practice she investigates biodiversity, hybridity and the agency of the non-human. Lange’s methodology employs practice-led research allowing for the coalescing of the material of clay with ideas of adaptation and evolution. These components fused in the hand of the artist birth hybrid inventions of the mycological, zoological and botanical. Her work tenderly examines refrains of redemption, restoration and renewal through material investigations merged with a mycelial imagination. Lange’s most recent work promotes the agency of the non-human, envisioning adaptation and hybridity as an alternate future.