flute - ca. 14’15”

Score - 8.5 x 11

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For many years I have been photographing cracks, stains, mold, rust, and discoloration on man-made and natural objects. I continue to be humbled and deeply inspired by the raw beauty all around us that is often overlooked or taken for granted. For a long time, I didn’t realize that many of my photographs were not of mold, moss, or fungus like I thought they were, but actually of lichens instead. Lichens are beautiful bizarre organisms that are not a plant, moss, mold, or entirely fungus, and they are estimated to cover roughly 6% of the Earth’s surface. They do not have roots and there are thousands of recorded kinds of lichens. As described by the United States Department of Agriculture, “Lichens are a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga. The dominant partner is the fungus, which gives the lichen the majority of its characteristics...” There are eight of the main categories of lichens with distinct characteristics which I used as inspiration for the eight movements: Fruticose (tufts, branch-like shrubs); Filamentous (stringy and matted); Crustose (crust-like, close to the surface); Foliose (flat, leaf-like lobes); Leprose (powdery); Gelatinous (jelly-like); Byssoid (whispy); Squamulose (clustered, flat, scale-like units).

Lichens I was written for Emma Resmini and completed in June, 2016. It was premiered on November 9, 2016 at Curtis Institute of Music.