bled:
Candy (2006)
Washington coast.
Lindsey Jordan aka Snail Mail 🐌🌈
Cordyceps, the Killer Fungi.
Spores from the parasitic fungi called the cordyceps infects an insects brain and directs the insect upwards towards the forest canopy where it latches onto a plant to eventually die.
After growing for about 3 weeks within the dead insect, the cordyceps unleashes spores into the forest, infecting other insects within the immediate area. There are thousands of different types of cordyceps fungi and each specialise in just one type of insect species.
The Two Mantises
Inspired by Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas
watercolor and gouache 18″x18″
A dissection illustrating the arterial blood supply to the Brain.
Everything that you think you are, and everything that’s happened to you are housed in this. Just nuts….
“Valentine”
Face and brain: dissections. Colour mezzotint by J.F. Gautier d'Agoty, 1748.