Magic Mushrooms
The worship of nature by my ancestors from the viking era, weaves into my world-building to suggest the disjunction between modern Western life and the natural world.
I am creating talking mushroom characters, as the vikings also used magic mushrooms and animals to connect to the spirit world and to gain strength in war as “berserkers”. However, today we see them mostly used to get hallucinatory experiences for recreation or recovery, which I am embracing in my current NYC life that also carries a lack of meaning with the party, pop and fast-lived lifestyle.
Medium: Painted polymer clay and 3d printed plastic
Size: From 6” to 15”
The making of mushrooms
These sculptures are made in colored polymer clay, then animated, 3d scanned and 3d printed. Some are brought Into a virtual reality program where animated letters create words of no meaning.
Through holding an iPad or smartphone in front of selected elements, additional animated 3d sculptures, such as words or moving mystic characters, will magically appear.
This milieu includes effects of hallucinatory magic mushrooms and flowers sending out words lacking meaning. Communiques that hint at progressive voices who critique the meaningless words and actions of the status quo such as Greta Thunberg’s “Bla bla bla” and are backed with the Police’s “Da da da.”
