Photographs, recycled and painted algebra workbook, and recycled Mead notebook cover, 5.5″ W x 8.5″ H x 0.5″ D, 3.1 Oz (0.2 lb)
Algebra of Fungi Walk extends my ongoing photographic performance series, The Walk Project. The project began during my month-long Artist-in-Residence at Weir Farm National Historical Park in Connecticut in August 2024, living immersed in nature and away from my home in New York City. When I returned, the vividness of the landscape stayed with me, along with the many photographs of mushrooms I had taken. I wanted to bring the three-dimensional mushrooms, my walks, and the recycled workbook together into a single object.
That summer brought heavy rains and Connecticut’s worst flooding in decades. On drier days, I walked the woods, photographing mushrooms in various stages—sprouting, thriving, and decaying. These observations inspired the book’s three-dimensional mushrooms, crafted from pages of my child’s recycled algebra workbook, where printed equations meet his handwritten problem-solving in pencil, linking human labor to natural growth.
A photograph from my walk is embedded in the book, preserving the performance’s physical trace, while transforming my son’s workbook into sculptural forms bridges our first extended separation, connecting distance, memory, and shared material.
Top: Inside / Bottom left: Front cover / Bottom right: Back cover