In Process… Thinking about the vast varieties of mushroom kinds, all having different effects or functions, I reflect on the different effects and functions of the creatures that emerge from play. That is to say, play produces so many little creatures that seem pointless and go unnoticed throughout its flow, but these little creatures are not pointless, and they are not erased if left behind during events of play, they are kept in a carrier bag until they are found to be useful. Is play producing a bag-of-tricks to draw from for future spontaneous creation? Is the evolutionary 'purpose’ of play to produce and gather possibilities for future application of improvised creativity (creating the self-in-relation). Merlin Sheldrake, during a podcast with Matthew David Segall and Thomas Jackson, discusses the secondary compounds that mushrooms produce which seem to have no overt function, that is, they are not used for the primary/daily functions of the mushroom. Sheldrake suggests that they are engaging in a kind of play, a chemical improvisation, the secondary substances aren’t purposeless in that they may be held for the what-if of the future. Segall simplifies this notion of preparatory play as “fun proceeds function”, or non-linearly, “fun affords function”. …In Process

In Process… I am inspired by the vector character of spores. That is to say, the way in which they become mobile for the purpose of assuring proliferation. They require a kind reciprocal relation, the fruiting body to the entities in its environment. In his book Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake discusses the penetrative aroma of the truffle as a means of attracting mechanisms for spore transmission. He explains that it is the alluring nature of the scent that pulls in animals that will dig it up and ensure its dissemination and therefore its proliferation. I can’t help but think of social discourses and their affective nature as a kind of aromatic allure. That it is because social discourses are affective that they are able to so easily attract us, and further, elicit such intense responses from us. As though social discourses are the fruiting bodies representing a larger entity beneath. …In Process

In Process… The symbiotic relationship between fungus and other elements of nature …In Process