Where, but on ted.com, can you find an artist exploring our relationship with the environment, death culture and a fabric death suit? As an alternative to embalming or cremation, the Mushroom Death Suit is embroidered with thread infused with mushroom spores. The mushrooms will not “eat you” while you are alive. You need to activate the mushrooms with a liquid culture medium applied with a dry mineral makeup to get the spores to develop and grow. This is a great example of the genius of a creative artist’s methodology. Jae Rhim Lee’s art can be used to change our relationship to death and the toxic industry that surrounds our demise.
