Alghe azzurre (Blue Algae)

Circulation: Single work
Dimensions: 21 × 29.7 cm / 8.27 × 11.69 in
Frame dimensions: 30 × 40 cm / 11.81 × 15.75 in
Artwork made in Italy
Material : cotton oil paper and watercolor
Year: 2023
Artwork description: Work on paper featuring a subject inspired by the story titled Kaleidoscopic Figures.
Framed

Kaleidoscopic Figures (fragment)
Immersed in the marine waters of the primordial layer, amid crackling lands and blazing lava, microscopic, round, and filamentous Blue Algae seduced the Rays of Light. It seemed like a chemical dance of love, the very first of its kind.
The Rays of Light traveled in sinuous movements. In the beginning, they were conceived by the Sun, the mother star that sent them far away, toward the mysterious Earth. A planet tinged with diffuse blue, where the newly born Blue Algae swayed in fresh and marine waters alike. No one was aware of what was about to happen: almost imperceptibly, they were preparing to carry out a revolution.
As if by an involuntary act, the innermost organs that composed them began to activate strange mechanisms, capable of luring the Rays of Light.
Such a powerful attraction had never been seen before, so unusual as to seem almost absurd.
Some say that those tiny blue life forms and the bearers of light gave rise to the very breath of life.

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Description

Alessandra La Marca
Category: Painting
Dimensions: 29.50cm H x 44cm W x 3.50cm D
Technique: oil color on raw canvas, fir wood
Year of creation: 2023
Series: UNIQUE PIECE

Mycorrhizal fungi cling to the roots of Monotropa uniflora to provide the necessary nutrients passed on by other species around it to keep it alive. The fungi interconnect plants of different species.

Sound Art

Fungal connections interlink different plant species, keeping a family of Monotropa alive that has lost the ability to photosynthesize.

TRANSLUCENT FLOWERS

Amidst the shadowy darkness of the undergrowth, faint glimpses of ethereal Translucent Flowers can be seen, enveloped in a peculiar ghostly aura. Their pallor paradoxically makes them more visible than the rest. The impenetrable darkness deprives the Flowers’ leaves of the ability to attract light, causing them to wither until they fall onto the damp ground, becoming compost for the very plant that had given birth to them, nourishment for the same body that had shed them.
The metamorphosis happening above ground wasn’t the only one; even beneath the surface, something was occurring. Tiny Mycorrhizal fungi were extending their hyphae, clinging to the roots of the plants that now bore new appearances. It was later discovered that they were the ones destined to revive the flowers above.
All that whiteness signifies loss and rebirth, an interweaving of lives that have generated stories.