Mushroom
by Kay Lovingood
Title
Mushroom
Artist
Kay Lovingood
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
On the edge of a hiking path in a forest, there stands a tan mushroom leaning into a patch of dappled sunshine. Its stem is on the diagonal, leaning at about a 45% angle, and stretches tall enough to be seen through the undergrowth. The cap of the fungus is wide open and is parallel to the ground. The image is filled with one single mushroom.
Contrasting with this one single mushroom, many smaller leaves of green plants crowd into the image, framing the subject, photobombing the star of the show. Slender leaves, tapered leaves, round leaves, pointed leaves, in clusters and singles, with stems of green, yellow, and red hover around the patch of ground and sunshine claimed by the mushroom. They surround. They encroach. They cover. They threaten to choke the mushrooms very existence.
The ground itself is littered with dried brown leaves. The cap of the mushroom is tan. The stem and the gills are white. Without these parts, the mushroom would blend in. The white stripe of the stem brings the viewer's eye to the center of the frame, where the mushroom wears its cap.
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July 19th, 2017
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