The work is comprised of unique cyanotype contact photographs of my compost (kitchen scraps, weeds, invasive species, sawdust, kombucha scobies, eggshells, soil, etc.) printed on Arches Platine, Revere, and Hanemuhle Platinum 100% cotton, fine art papers (some dyed with black or green tea) mounted on fallen elm, ash, cedar, cherry, maple, and locust wood rounds from local Ohio farmers, and sealed with boiled linseed oil. The circular mounted cyanotypes resemble images of the cosmos. These “constallations” were exhibited as an installation. The exhibition also consists of romanticized compost still life portraits from digital negatives, printed with cyanotype chemistry (some dyed with tea). And sculptures composting themselves, made out of reishi mushroom mycelium. One sculpture, Core Sample (remix) or Reishi Log, 2025, composted my old works on paper - drawings, meeting notes, research, tax returns, etc., shredded, sterilized, hydrated, and inoculated with ganoderman lucidum or reishi mushroom mycelium. The long cylinder piece rested on a shelf inside a vitrine that allowed for it to grow inside the gallery. Next to Core Sample (remix) or Reishi Log, 2025, sat a ceremonial headpiece made of fully grown and dried reishi mushrooms, other dried mushrooms, bones, leaves, acorns, sticks, moss, lichen, and various forest findings mounted on wood. 

The exhibition took place from July - August, 2025 at the Sean Christopher Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. The exhibition included 93 works, 86 pieces made in one month. Nearly all of the works have sold. 25% of sales were donated to organizations fighting for social and environmental justice.

We are all compost/cosmos.