A Pagoda I Have Never Seen, 2026

Cable ties

Dimensions Variable

Podoserpula miranda, the “Barbie Pagoda,” was formally described in 2012 in New Caledonia. I have never seen it. I met it only through papers and photographs while researching mushrooms for my thesis.

This sculpture is a clumsy recreation of something I have never encountered: industrial cable ties stacked layer by layer, held by nearly invisible fishing line, a nod to the hidden mycelial network. Every crooked angle is a trace of distance.