The Lichen Museum by Laurie A Palmer

The Lichen Museum by Laurie A Palmer

Serving as both a guide and companion publication to the conceptual art project of the same name, The Lichen Museum explores how the physiological characteristics of lichens provide a valuable template for reimagining human relations in an age of ecological and social precarity.

"The Lichen Museum is a deeply engaging, provocative, humorous, and moving account of why we should pay more attention to lichensAs lichens can be found anywhere, the entire surface of the earth becomes the lichen museum. A. Laurie Palmer weaves together personal anecdotes, theoretical interventions, photography, and detailed research to draw attention to how lichens can offer new ways to think through questions of relationality, life and death, and our mutual obligations to each other."—Heather Davis, author of Plastic Matter

"Meditative and inquisitive, The Lichen Museum is an interdisciplinary work about learning from the most unassuming of species."—Foreword

 

"Reading this work feels like taking a series of walks with a particularly curious and sensitive companion, consistently attentive to otherwise neglected facets of the actual environment. "—e-flux

 

"As an environmentally engaged artist, Palmer introduces readers to lichens through personal observations, extensive research, and critical evaluation of past and current scientific study of this complex living organism and offers her musings on the potential philosophical and poetic implications of these symbiotic organisms."—CHOICE

 

A. Laurie Palmer is an artist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781517908676
ISBN 10	1517908671
Title	The Lichen Museum
Author	Laurie A Palmer
Series	Art After Nature
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Minnesota Press
Year published	2023-02-28
Number of pages	184
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.