This project is an investigation in Goethe`s phenomenological scientific method applied in the observation of the complex structures of fungi and their mushroom fruit through the concept of morphology. It is a regrounding in the attempt to shift the anthropocentric gaze from onto to within. Researching the human desire for ritual that represents the order of primitive man perceived in or projected onto his surroundings from inside out. A state of fusion of identity of the external and internal, with all things living or dead.  

Our ‘inner worlds’ govern our emotions, thoughts, identities and beliefs which have a powerful transformable capacity for system change in the quest for sustainability. I have explored the material clay for its most direct path from mind to body, stemming from Robert Vischer`s, “Empathy theory,” ‘Einfühlung’ translated “feeling into”. Ceramics, just as Goethe`s methods, involve all elemental life forces, earth, wind, water, and fire for their completion. I’ve chosen to explore the natural object’s dynamic formative activity embedded within, investigating ideas of what seems complete as ‘becoming’, the metamorphic quality inherent in craft, and  proposing an alternative function beyond the obvious purpose of its utility.