close up. and work in progress
a painting i created for pictoplasma "CHARACTER MATTERS" CALL – it is an interpretation of the Kodama spirits known from HAYAO MIYASAKI'S "Princess Mononoke" #charactermatters

Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you.

#pictoplasma #kodama #forestspirit #mononoke #wholeearth #entangledlife #miyasaki #spirit #critters #chthulucene #woodwideweb #everythingisconnected #workinprogress #timelapse #painting #moki #mioke

work-in-progress of a painting i created for pictoplasma "CHARACTER MATTERS" CALL (an interpretation of the Kodama spirits known from HAYAO MIYASAKI'S "Princess Mononoke")
#charactermatters

Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you.

#pictoplasma #kodama #forestspirit #mononoke #wholeearth #entangledlife #miyasaki #spirit #critters #chthulucene #woodwideweb #everythingisconnected #workinprogress #timelapse #painting #moki #mioke

for pictoplasma "CHARACTER MATTERS" CALL – i painted an interpretation of the Kodama spirits known from HAYAO MIYASAKI'S "Princess Mononoke" #charactermatters

Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you.

#pictoplasma #kodama #forestspirit #mononoke #wholeearth #entangledlife #miyasaki #spirit #critters #chthulucene #woodwideweb #everythingisconnected #workinprogress #timelapse #painting #moki #mioke

MERLIN SHELDRAKE'S "ENTANGLED LIFE" is just exciting & absolutely fantastic to read!!!
"Some researchers use the term ‘holobiont’ to refer to an assemblage of different organisms that behaves as a unit. The word ‘holobiont’ derives from the Greek word holos, which means whole. Holobionts are the lichens of this world, the more-than-the-sums of their parts. Like ‘symbiosis’ and ‘ecology’, ‘holobiont’ is a word that does useful work. If we only have words that describe neatly bounded autonomous individuals, it is easy to think that they actually exist. The holobiont is not a utopian concept. Collaboration is always a blend of competition and co-operation. There are many instances where the interests of all the symbionts don’t align. A bacterial species in our gut can make up a key part of our digestive system but cause a deadly infection if it gets into our blood. We’re used to this idea.
Perhaps it isn’t so hard for us to relate to lichens after all. This sort of relationship-building enacts one of the oldest evolutionary maxims. If the word ‘cyborg’ — short for cybernetic organism — describes the fusion between a living organism and a piece of technology, then we, like all other life forms, are symborgs, or symbiotic organisms. The authors of a seminal paper on the symbiotic view of life take a clear stance on this point. ‘There have never been individuals, they declare. “We are all lichens.’

#mycology #holobiont #symbiosis #merlinsheldrake #entangledlife #mustread #lichen #recommendation

it is my greatest honor to portrait Merlin Sheldrake. the mycologist wrote "entangled life”. he agreed to have some of his observations printed in my upcoming publication “MEANDER”. merci beaucoup merlin!
please check out his wonderful writing about nature and how everything is delicately connected @merlin.sheldrake
book release may 2024 @hatjecantzverlag

#merlinsheldrake #portraitofmerlinsheldrake #holobiont #portraitmerlin #entangledlife #overgrown #foodforthemushrooms #mycelium #lichen #makingof #workinprogress #paintingprocess #onewitheverything #cycleoflife #digest #essence #moki #mioke #climatechange #actnow #diversity #climateactionnow #extinction #sybiont

it is my greatest honor to portrait Merlin Sheldrake. the mycologist wrote "entangled life”. he agreed to have some of his observations printed in my upcoming publication “MEANDER”. merci beaucoup merlin!
please check out his wonderful writing about nature and how everything is delicately connected @merlin.sheldrake
book release may 2024 @hatjecantzverlag

#merlinsheldrake #portraitofmerlinsheldrake #holobiont #portraitmerlin #entangledlife #overgrown #foodforthemushrooms #mycelium #lichen #makingof #workinprogress #paintingprocess #onewitheverything #cycleoflife #digest #essence #moki #mioke #climatechange #actnow #diversity #climateactionnow #extinction #sybiont

excerpt from comic "THE OBSERVER" for the upcoming SPRING anthology with the topic TOGETHERNESS#merlinsheldrake #mycelium #entangledlife #theobserver #moki

#Glastonbury #book haul… 3 people this week (some of them podcasts) recommended #NightBoattoTangier , been staring at #EntangledLife for ages & I think this must be one of the last in my collection of #Laing et al #Pelican #Schizophrenia #books #MerlinSheldrake #fungi