11.438" x 11.438" Frame with 4.75" x 4.75" Spore Print
A truly one of a kind ecologically artistic representation of the Circle of Spruce Healing.
Towering spruce trees are mycorrhizal symbionts with the classically enthralling amanita muscaria mushrooms.
Spruce beetles bore between the living bark and inner cambium layers of the spruce tree's trunk and branches, leaving behind intricate mapping, unique to each and every branch in the Forest.
Dead lower branches, aka "ladder fuels" are what help a restorative wildfire climb to the treetops and become an uncontrollable inferno.
As we collect spruce resin to produce our Spru-Seal® organic spruce balms, we pop off the ladder fuels and occasionally collect the most beautifully, intricately beetle "mapped" specimens for Forest Art project like this unique mushroom spore print piece!
Humans (you & me!) are the missing element from the Modern Forest.
By returning the ladder fuels to the ground, we're feeding the mushrooms and earthworms and soil microbes who all work to compost & recycle the carbon nutrients into precious high country topsoil that is the future Forest floor!
SPECIAL THANKS TO RED BUFFALO CAFE IN SILVERTHORNE, CO, FOR THE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF SUPPORT!
SPECIAL THANKS TO MOUNTAIN ART & FRAMING IN SILVERTHORNE, CO, FOR THE PROFESSIONAL FRAMING AND NON-GLARE GLASS UPGRADES!
Spore Print & Beetle Mapped Ladder Fuel Art #6
All items purchased outright will be professionally re-framed by Mountain Art & Framing with non-glare glass, and properly mounted with a Donation Thank-you receipt from the Spruce Healing Initiative 501(c)-3 to end veteran homelessness and clear the National Forests of wildfire hazards in one fell swoop!
Items won in auction or purchased outright will be shipped in protective packaging or locally delivered for guaranteed safe arrival of your new, one of a kind charitably collected piece of artwork.
All proceeds directly and entirely benefit the Spruce Healing Initiative as we grow beyond conception and into our first full year of recruiting veterans seeking employment and networking with Forest management officials!