Endosymbiosis is the symbiotic relationship where one organism lives inside another. When thinking about this process, MacLeod thinks of Endosymbiosis as a way to describe our symbiotic relationships with the ‘more-than-human’. In reality it is a term, to her, that describes the way we should view our relationships with the ‘more-than-human’; a coevolved relationship in which no being can survive without each other or should want to. MacLeod thinks of the trees, and the mosses, and the lichens, and the fungi, that grow together and enrich each other’s lives, supporting each being equally.
Endosymbiosis - I (detail image) | Cyanotype, Bloodwood Tree Sap and Copper Oxide Ink on Translucent Paper in Foraged Bloodwood Timber Frame | 29.7 x 42cm | 2022.
Endosymbiosis - I | Cyanotype, Bloodwood Tree Sap and Copper Oxide Ink on Translucent Paper in Foraged Bloodwood Timber Frame | 29.7 x 42cm | 2022.
I pay my deepest respect to the Traditional Custodians of the Country from which these artworks have been created: the Kabi Kabi/ Gubbi Gubbi and Jinibara peoples of the Sunshine Coast. To all First Nations elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.