Mushrooms
Vitruvian Fungi, The Circle of Spores
Leonardo never accounted for gills and caps. This circle does.
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Field notes
Vitruvian Fungi is not a portrait of a species. It takes the old image of the human figure inscribed in a circle and a square, the diagram used for centuries as an argument about ideal proportion, and rebuilds it out of fungi.
The reasoning is straightforward. That diagram is a claim that the body follows a perfect geometry. Fungi make an awkward answer to it: they are structured without being symmetrical, and they arrive at their shape by growing outward rather than by scaling a fixed plan. Putting caps, stems and gills inside that frame turns a statement into a question.
It is rendered as a single circular composition, built from mushroom forms rather than pasted onto them, so it holds together as a design and still reads as fungi from across a room. Part of the Mushrooms collection, available on posters, prints, t-shirts, hoodies and accessories.
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