Sensing Fruiting Bodies
by Leya Tess
Mycelium running from facial sinus of a face embedded in the earth, surrounded by the scent of Matsutake mushroom, rose, truffle and poo.
Sensing Fruiting Bodies, 2021, Digital Illustration
Leya Tess is an interdisciplinary artist who swims out between the islands of Art/Science and East/West. She uses mark making and intervention to highlight imagined ecological structures. Her hyphenated (Hong Kong Chinese-Swedish-British) settler experience has been shaped by the wind and water of the North Eastern Pacific West Coast.