Miia Kettunen: A love letter to a tree

Completion year: 2021

Technique: Toned cyanotype on cotton, cardboardbox, Pleurotus Pulmonarius

Size: 25,5cmX19cmX3cm

Keywords: Miia Kettunen, A love letter to a tree, cyanotype, bio art, syanotypia, biotaide

A love letter to a tree is a recording of a self-imprinted change and an artwork of my affectionate joy of connection with the trees. It utilises the underground networking ability between a tree and a fungus as a channel of communication. My messenger is Pleurotus Pulmonarius fungus living in the decaying birches, which I have incubated inside the artwork installed in the old mixed forest. The transformation in the work was guided by nature´s rhythm and the regulations of the ecosystem concurrently delivering the message in the network of mycelium and trees.

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