My vision uses the mushroom’s bizarre and varied shape and intricate detail combined with composition and lighting to present images with a dose of abstraction. Abstraction makes them unique and opens them to multiple interpretations depending on the viewer’s imagination to use their personal memories and life experiences to build content. The figurative images or faces are not beautiful or cute but rough and weird and can speak metaphorically to people’s diversity and uniqueness, often not accepted. This highlights the fear of the unknown, a fear that is exploited by right-wing extremists.
