Branches / Limbs /Boughs

Is lichen stealing nutrients and blocking light essential to the life of the host plant? While the beauty and colors are mesmerizing they can also sometimes appear repulsive. The grace and elegant lines these branches make in the studio context are affecting, and the fabric-wrapped frames reflect the tactile experience depicted by the photograph. While beauty takes front stage, an anthropomorphic quality surreptitiously occurs over time. These opportunistic living things exist in a symbiotic relationship between fungus and photosynthesis.