Subscape

Defamiliarization, or ostranenie, a term coined by Viktor Shklovsky to describe a core function of art: to reveal new perspectives by presenting the common in unique light, forcing the mind to jump the ski track and think in fresh snow.

Subscape presents fungi as landscape, offering a bridge across perspectives towards an intimate consideration of the more-than-human world infusing us. That we feel anomic at all is testament to our modern focus on humans as singular, as discrete and straight and clean and separate. ​

When in fact we contain multitudes; we are porous and queer and muddled and unbounded.

Subscape invites you to see the trees and valleys and mountains in the mold, to defamiliarize yourself from your self, see our edge as a shimmering veil, and recognize that we rely on air plants make who rely on fungi whose spores you're breathing now.

And in this practice, our phenomenological experience is exposed to be less purely human. As David Abram questions in his book Spell of the Sensuous, "is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us?"