A portrait series about transformation and decay
Ink-Art
An ordinary mushroom becomes a drawing, a figure and finally a drop of ink.
Enter the series
The project
From encounter
to visual language.
Ink-Art follows the ephemeral life of inkcap mushrooms found in a meadow near Uden, Brabant. Over two months I returned to the same small place, waiting for new forms to emerge and for familiar forms to dissolve.
The portrait format isolates each mushroom as a singular presence. Light, texture and negative space remove it from its surroundings, revealing a sequence of gestures that can feel botanical, sculptural or almost human.
Inkcap mushrooms transform visibly as they age, their caps liquefying into black droplets. That brief transition is the heart of the series: decay is not treated as an ending, but as another creative state.
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- Subject
- Inkcap mushrooms
- Duration
- Two months
- Location
- Uden, Brabant
- Works
- 9 photographs
Selected works
A considered edit from the complete Ink-Art series.