Lance Letscher Small Sermon, 2019 Collage On Masonite

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if there’s a subject you don’t like in your career, don’t overthink it, just cheat

Aspicilia filiformis

God I love that the description I found for this lichen as “creeping.” Creeping suggests movement–and considering how sloowwwly lichens grow, it might just be the slowest creep ever. A. filiformis grows in terete, filiform lobes in tangled mats on detritus, soil, and old grass mounds. The surface is brown, gray-green or olivaceous, turning black toward the forked lobe tips (described as looking like little snake tongues which is so precious). Apothecia are rare and small, with a flat or slightly sunken dark reddish-brown or black disc. So far, this creepy, snakey pal has only been found in shrub-steppe and grassland habitats in the western U.S. One of my favorite ecosystems! Unassuming but teaming with a wealth of highly adapted life forms! Like A. filiformis, who I have probably seen before and just assumed they were a dead tumbleweed or something. Oops, sorry pal. 

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Yang-Tsung Fan (Taiwanese, b. 1982)

The Grove, 2014

Acrylic on canvas

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sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all

the massive power of trains yet confinement to a single path makes them comparable to angels