Mycelial Mind

Mycelial Mind reminds us of what dominant systems have taught us to forget: survival is not individual, but relational. Created after reading Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life, the painting considers what fungi and plants can teach us about adaptation, interdependence and the connections that make survival possible.

A brain-like form dominates the composition, yet its branching structure also resembles a tree, a vascular system and a web of fungal hyphae. Raised gold lines move through fluid shapes, tracing the places where separate bodies meet, exchange and become something new. Blue expands beyond the central form, suggesting that perception and self do not end at a fixed boundary.

The climate crisis exposes the cost of imagining humanity as separate from the living world. Mycelial Mind challenges the isolation of humanity by presenting it as one expression within a vast network of living relations. Connection depends not only on harmony, but also on vulnerability, dependence and exchange. What might become possible if we understood dependence not as weakness, but as the condition of being alive?