Blue Gall R/Evolution

Blue Gall R/Evolution 
2025
3 mins 20 secs
4K
Sound and video: Linda Loh

Uromycladium tepperianum is a rust fungus that infects more than 100 species of Acacia trees. 

On some species, the chemicals also cause masses of shoots to grow from the stems, termed witches' brooms.

Here they are biomorphic sculptural forms with their own equilibrium. Just like the gall becomes enmeshed into the leaves of the tree, clumping, these sculptures entwine. Earthy, beyond earthy. Nature, not nature. Unity, disunity. Bodily, not bodily. Revolving like a dervish, perhaps meditative, finding their own balance, they morph and evolve into a strange state, drifting away.