Lichen on Red Rock
by Roger Passman
Title
Lichen on Red Rock
Artist
Roger Passman
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Prints/limited Edition Prints/licensing
Description
A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship. The combined lichen has properties different from those of its component organisms. Lichens come in many colors, sizes, and forms. The properties are sometimes plant-like, but lichens are not plants. Lichens may have tiny, leafless branches (fruticose), flat leaf-like structures (foliose), flakes that lie on the surface like peeling paint (crustose), or other growth forms.
In addition to distinct physical mechanisms by which lichens break down raw stone, recent studies indicate lichens attack stone chemically, entering newly chelated minerals into the ecology.
Over time, this activity creates new fertile soil from lifeless stone. [Wikipedia]
Photographing lichen allows me to think abstractly. Composition is paramount as nature provides the colors and shapes that suggest otherness.
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A limited edition of 25 prints signed and numbered by the photographer are available directly from our studio. Sizes equivalent to any of the sizes offered as a print by demand through this online gallery are offered in this limited edition. These prints are only available directly from our studio gallery. Prints are delivered by US Mail rolled in a tube. For more information please contact me using the SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE option in the left sidebar of most of our online gallery pages.
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This image is, as are all my images, protected by international copyright conventions and may not be reproduced for commercial use without express written permission.
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Copyright © 2017 Roger Passman. All Rights Reserved
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March 16th, 2017
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