To Draw Sugar From
2022

To Draw Sugar From involves a lion's mane mushroom, also known by the names mountain-priest and bearded tooth. Anxiety and sadness are known to be lessened with the help of lion's mane. This mushroom lived in a museum space where the light is strong and the air is cold, and needed extra support to grow. Gallery attendants and a friend's clothing gave the mushroom warmth and darkness. A provisional substance made of charms became nourishment for the mycelium. The first mushroom to grow here died.

lion's mane mushroom growing on sawdust, vermiculite, some of the last corn gluten feed in the world, found on I-55, one soybean, gifted corn, wet with tongue: flower seeds,
circled in a magazine, cub scout growth chart, drawings of a foundation repair, shirt button, water from a drinking fountain that flows forever, ordinary strain, a friend's shirt, two given glass jars, darkness, hygrometer, heating pad, pillow stuffing