Fruiting Body is a micro-project undertaken by Prakash Krishnan as part of the “Mobilizing disability survival skills for the urgencies of the Anthropocene” (MDSSA) Project funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant (PI, Arseli Dokumaci).
àInside the case, lives a world narrating my experiences living with chronic pain. The terrarium floor is covered in a fibrous, medium brown soil made up of the shavings of coconut husks. In the centre is a lighter brown cube of a different potting mix. From its surfaces emerges pink oyster mushrooms. Depending at its time of growth, they may appear as dozens of little, Barbie pink, fingers reaching up from the soil. Or, if they are later in the growth cycle, they may appear as large and complete mushrooms, a lighter pink, growing atop one another creating a tiered bouquet of fruiting bodies. Or there may be nothing at all. The decomposition having already taken place. Littered around the mushroom bloom are fabric dolls in the shape of toadstools. The dolls are naturally dyed pink and are held together by loose, pink cotton thread. On one of the plastic panes of the case are two peculiar metal circles. They vibrates against the plastic that allows for the sounds of cracking joints to resonate within and outside the enclosure.