Portland Winter Light Festival | Mycelium Lumina
Holst partnered with Street Roots, a local nonprofit, to create an installation for this year’s Portland Winter Light Festival. The annual festival brings together artists and designers to create dynamic and engaging installations to bring joy to festival goers in one of Portland’s cold winter months.
Mycelium Lumina
The design of this year’s installation, Mycelium Lumina, is inspired by fungi and the organic networks they create to connect the forest. Underneath the forest floor, a vast network of fungal roots weaves with the roots of trees and other plants. The fungal roots are called mycelium. Mycelium is a part of the complex network that makes up healthy forests. For Mycelium Lumina, the goal was to create an installation that, as you peer through the panels, you see an abstracted view into these unseen structures that bind life together.
Materials
Having participated in the Portland Winter Light Festival for several years now, Mycelium Lumina was made of recycled materials from our previous installations. The clear acrylic panels were repurposed from Holst’s office.
Partnering with Street Roots
Street Roots publishes a weekly social justice newspaper sold by people experiencing houselessness and poverty to earn an income. Their mission to empower, advocate, advocate, and provide resources for people experiencing homelessness and poverty resonates with Holst’s mission. We doing pro-bono work with Street Roots to design their new headquarters in Old Town Portland. The panels from Mycelium Lumina will be auctioned by Street Roots and all the proceeds will go to them.
