Materiella teckningar / Material drawings at Arvika konsthall
Mycel / Mycelium – A large collaborative drawing (9 x 1,5 meters) in black ink of a mycelium structure that grows over the paper with alterations in shapes, structure and density.
In the collaborative work with MASU we often find our process to be rhizomatic like a fungi mycelium and in the last couple of years we have also worked a lot in forests with our sprawling, spreading wooden structures. The material we build with and move around between sites in the ongoing project (Material) Site Recordings have also hosted several different fungi as they reside in places where things grow. The drawing Mycel / Mycelium comes out of a wish to work and move across the paper over time like mycelium, in an attempt to be the mycelium rather than to illustrate it. Â
In the process of this work, we cut a 10 meter roll of drawing paper in half and worked on each half simultaneously. We decided on black ink in bottles and calligraphy tips as the tools. We have shared the rolls of paper and continued wherever there was space, connecting the different tracks, traces and patterns. The drawing exists within, but is not limited to, the limits of the paper, and could continue to grow in any direction.
The drawing is both a dialogue with our ongoing practice as well as its own work.
