Felix Kalmenson

Growths
Forgetus Collective, Toronto
July 19-23rd, 2012

Project Text:
Growths is the result of several months of breeding mold on the 35mm motion picture film of the trailer for Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, using natural processes of decay to rot the emulsion of the found footage. The result is part formal investigation of mold patterns and behaviors, part iridescent abstraction and disintegration of known images. The found image is reshaped by the movement of the fungus and it becomes a footprint of its growth, a document of its life. These imprints were then scanned and assembled at a 12,000 DPI resolution, using the scanner as a microscope to capture the minute abstractions of this living organism paused in colour.