20” x 30” acrylic on canvas
A tree at the edge of a cliff, exposes its roots. In the win and wind, it’s moments away from breaking free of the confining earth. Or does it feel confined by the rocks and dirt it’s roots are twined within? Perhaps it is like being comforted in the arms of your mother and being in the comfort of your family.
This piece has been displayed at the MacLaren Art Centre and is currently showing at the Barrie Art Club Gallery.
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Wood Wide Web baby…
The Wood Wide Web is a fairly new and surprising discovery. Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria connecting trees and plants to one another. This subterranean social network, nearly 500 million years old, is now known as the “wood wide web”
Check out this link. Article isn’t too long.
Science.org article on the Wood Wide Web
Definition of Mycelium
Mycelium (plural mycelia) is a root-like structure of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae. Fungal colonies composed of mycelium are found in and on soil and many other substrates.
What can we do?
Go for a walk in the forest. That woodsy smell is predominantly fungi. Take it in. Meditate on the cool world beneath your feet. It’s a community of life that cares for each other.
What you can do
Support Forests
Learn more about this fascinating science and support the science, and forests.
Plant a Tree!
Living Green Barrie has a mission to plant 10,000 trees. Help them.
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