Saturday, November 24, 2012
afterlife...,
wired | Most people have pulled long-forgotten vegetables from their
refrigerator's depths at least once, and just the memory is enough to
make a stomach turn. But one man's fridge mold is another man's still
life. Estonian artist Heikki Leis' Afterlife is a veritable rotting cornucopia of vegetables photographed long past their prime.
"I was inspired by some potatoes I had once left out in a pot for too
long. They had started to mold and on closer examination the colors and
textures looked interesting enough to take some photos," Leis wrote in
an e-mail.
Leis then started experimenting with various fruits and vegetables.
He sometimes let them decay for two months, keeping them covered so they
wouldn't dry out. When Leis finished, he was truly finished. "I'm
tempted to say I ate them, but the truth is I just threw them away," he
said.
Leis said he'd be open to an expert's analysis of his rotting
concoctions, so Wired invited mycologist Kathie Hodge of Cornell
University, who's working on a book about food-decaying fungi, to look
at the work.
There are thousands of molds out there, and "we see them all the time
and yet we don't look at them. They live with us and we automatically
throw these things out," said Hodge, who took Wired on a tour of Leis'
moldy world, though not without a warning.
"Getting them to this level is probably not a good idea, so don't try this at home!" she said.
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November 24, 2012
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