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Claire Fall Blanchette is an artist working across multiple disciplines including sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Her University of Arizona MFA Thesis project “Tangled Currents” uses eight historic landfills along the Santa Cruz River in Tucson as a framework to examine the sustained consequences of human activity on a local ecosystem. Each sculpture represents one of these sites and offers a speculative solution for their remediation: mycelium and mushrooms. Mycelium and their fruiting bodies, mushrooms, are known to pull toxins out of the soil. In her sculptures, Reishi mushrooms twist and bend from each section and suggest what might be possible.
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