Mold art…enjoy :)

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    1 year ago

    why do they all look so much different

    I think she’s used something (maybe a piece of thin plastic) to separate the areas, then has populated each area with a different type of mold

    I don’t know what species of molds are present, but it’s like leaving food in the fridge for too long, any spores will start to grow and turn into fluffy/slimey forms…different types of mold will look different, and if there’s just one type per segment it will be able to grow without competition

    I don’t know if this fully answers your question, there are some mycology communities here who can maybe help better

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        1 year ago

        I cross posted this to https://lemmy.ml/post/3120958

        and u/Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz commented

        ‘…Just cultivate different types of microbes (preferably distinctly colors), slice the agars in to small squares, make a mosaic out of them and cultivate a few more days to hide the gaps…’ which is possibly the process Dasha Plesen has used