As the Thread Re-threads

Blue oyster mycelium, used motor oil, straw, beeswax, hemp fiber, flax fiber, water, honey fungus rhizomorphs, sand, soil, found objects, dimensions variable, Bleur Gallery, 62-64 Baker Street, London, 2026

Residues of refined crude oil, once ruptured from deep time to fulfill the desire for acceleration, are steeped within a mesh of living mycelium. Fungi's decentralised and ancient capacity for returning matter to the cyclic, is made visible through the slow enzymatic oxidation and metabolic degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons. Accumulations of toxic oils are attenuated, redistributed and rethreaded as simpler compounds that can be absorbed and reused as energy and biomass. This living process gestures toward the wider possibilities of mycoremediation practices, foregrounding more-than-human intelligences and resilience amid extractive logics and ideologies of human exceptionalism and control.