Melinda Hurst Frye

Artist Statement

AN OBSERVATION OF THE UNIQUE ECOLOGY AND BRILLIANCE OF THE FOREST UNDERSTORY

Analogous to scenes from a natural history museum, flora and fauna take center stage to illustrate that we are always tied to migration, evolution, and metamorphosis. The surface is not a border, but an entrance to habitats, systems, and regeneration.

Using a flatbed scanner as my camera, I seek to witness the defining ecology of the understory in the Pacific Northwest. The found fungal characters, laborers, the givers, and the receivers within both the forest floor, provide evidence of the efforts and the slow churning of the soil that takes the forest apart, so it may become again.

Melinda Hurst Frye | Kenmore, WA

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