HERNÁN HERDEZ

Maison Margiela: Photography by Mark Borthwick.

Pleurotus ostreatus. The under surface of a full-grown fruit-body removed from a Poplar (Populus serotina), showing the gills and the interlamellar spaces. Photographed by J. P. Hillhouse at King’s Heath, Birmingham, England, on December 23, 1922.

From “Researches on Fungi” by Arthur Henry Reginald, 1958.

“Sculpture for the Earth” (“Rzeźba dla Ziemi”) by Polish artist and performer Teresa Murak, created in 1974 in Ubbaboda, Sweden.

Creating the sculpture took the artist 30 days, and she used her own height as the radius for measurements. The mound was a mirrored image of the hemisphere dug from the ground, meant to represent forces of earth and sky complementing each other. After shaping the hemispheres, she grassed both convex and concave surfaces over. Just after a few days, when the green sprouts started growing, the sculpture was destroyed with bulldozers against the artist’s will, under a pretext of a lack of building permit. Teresa Murak was among the first artists in Europe who engaged in land art.