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Mixed media: found object, wood, polystyrene, porcelain coating, resin, chipboard. Curator: Katherine Griffin 2009-2010

In molecular biology, “fruiting bodies” occur when single cells that are starved for food,

converge to form multi-cellular communities, thereby increasing their chances of dispersing to

more favorable environment. From that point onwards their survival is based entirely on this

symbiotic relationship. Inspired by microscope imagery of the vast structure that is formed

in this phenomenon, microbiology is being brought to the intimate, private domain. White

porcelain strewn with houses spill out of a drawer as another milky wave embedded with

fragmented houses strives to complete this flow.Radiating from this electronic “molten core” are trails of sculptural forms. Evocative of both (floral and viral) organic and architectural entities, these trails reach toward the walls of the space like roots, spores, or even rays of sunlight. In their urge toward the edge, these radiances form their own clusters and gaps, intersections and “no-man’s lands,” thus determining an irregular, natural-seeming pattern of growth and metamorphosis, center and periphery, city and suburb.

Katherine Griffin, Peter Frank