I've been thinking a lot about lichen this summer - largely Victorian lichen, to be sure, but some contemporary lichen-thinking and art work and writing, too. And moss. There's a keynote (in Bonn) and a different CAA paper (in NYC, next February) on their way. But the inevitable has happened, via eBay: chasing down wearable lichen. This is one of two necklaces - here's some lichen cast inside a marble-sized ball. Much lichen disquisition will follow, I'm sure (from Ruskin, to Donna Haraway, to Drew Milne's series of poems, "Lichen for Marxists"). Some of you may already have heard me talking about lichen in Millais ... it's been a profitable and sustaining summer-long obsession.
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