Mlanie Barnett: Detritus

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Melanie Barnett, "Slept Within the Soil," 2021

ceramics

Detritus foreshadows humanity’s fate in the context of the climate crisis. Mosses, liverworts, and fungi – all ancient organisms that have lived far longer than we can imagine – consume human figures in grotesque, fantastical ways, reducing them to a state of detritus.