The Lichen Museum av Laurie A. Palmer

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<P><B>A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations</B><BR/><BR/> </P><P>Serving as both a guide and companion publication to the conceptual art project of the same name, <I>The Lichen Museum</I> explores how the physiological characteristics of lichens provide a valuable template for reimagining human relations in an age of ecological and social precarity. Channeling between the personal, the scientific, the philosophical, and the poetic, A. Laurie Palmer employs a cross-disciplinary framework that artfully mirrors the collective relations of lichens, imploring us to envision alternative ways of living based on interdependence rather than individualism and competition.</P><P>Lichens are composite organisms made up of a fungus and an alga or cyanobacteria thriving in a mutually beneficial relationship. <I>The Lichen Museum</I> looks to these complex organisms, remarkable for their symbiosis, diversity, longevity, and adaptability, as mo