8 1/2" x 6" Driftwood and Cherry. Gesso on driftwood and inside of fungi. Spore stalks are cherry with pyrography. Upper one has released it's spore. Bottom two are just emerging. Inspiration: This evolved from several things over a period of time. First I found the piece of driftwood while walking on the farm this Fall. When I picked it up it had several little critters in the crevices that thought they had found a dandy place to winter. I evicted them and took it home. Later on, I watched a program on TV about what would happen if an asteroid hit the earth. They said the only thing that would survive within hundreds of miles of impact would probably be some sort fungal spores. A few days later, I saw the driftwood on the bench, remembered the critters hiding in it, the TV show and the fungi and started fiddling. This is the result - mutated fungi sprouting from crevices in a charred remanent.
