Ornamushrooms

2025 – ongoing
Mycelium, SLA 3D printing

Ornamushroom mycelium sculptures and their digital 3D renderings displayed together in the gallery.
Mycelium sculptures shown alongside their digital 3D source models. Ornamushrooms of Lunenburg (2025), Lunenburg School of the Arts, NS.

Ornamushrooms playfully weaves Atlantic Canada's architectural heritage with speculative future ecologies through experimental sculpture, developed during a residency at the Old Town Lunenburg UNESCO World Heritage Site. Reproducing Lunenburg's vernacular ornamentation through 3D models and mycelium, Ornamushrooms probe the tension in our relationships to housing and food security amidst the global crisis of climate change.

As both recent transplant and town resident, Bluemke situates her process within a historical lineage of adapting new technologies to local tastes. The exhibition explores a provocative dialogue between rot and renewal in coastal communities. Can we embrace the decay of our social fabric, if it proves fertile ground to grow a new future?

Wide installation view of Ornamushrooms of Lunenburg at Lunenburg School of the Arts.
Exhibition view, Ornamushrooms of Lunenburg, Lunenburg School of the Arts, 2025.
3D-printed Ornamushroom mold models with digital renders.
SLA 3D-printed mold forms, derived from digitized Lunenburg ornamentation.
A mycelium Ornamushroom sculpture being released from its 3D-printed mold.
An Ornamushroom released from its mold.
Detail of 3D-printed Ornamushroom forms with their digital renderings.
Detail, mold forms and digital renderings.