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Drawing and Painting

Judith Librach

Beauty

Photography
2024
Inkjet print on Canson Infinity Arches Smooth Cotton
8"x8"
Digital photograph of a mushroom spore print. Spore prints are used to identify types of mushrooms and are saved for future cultivation. Hundreds of thousands of individual, tiny spores make up these intriguing landscapes.

“Once all of its spores fall, a mushroom immediately begins to decompose. As a simultaneous expression of birth and death, these spore prints speak to instinct, ephemerality, and legacy, materially embodying aspects of my experience in middle age. There is beauty in decay.”

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Beauty
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Judith Librach

Artist, Educator, Community Organizer

“As a multidisciplinary artist, I explore ways of knowing through materially embodied narratives in natural ecologies, using them as frameworks to critically examine the body as land. Foraging urban...” [More]