Bark Beetle Volume XXXII: Obligate Mutualism, 2020, artist book, 8.75 x 6.75 x 3 in. / 22.2 x 17.14 x 7.6 cm.

Bark Beetle Volume XXXII: Obligate Mutualism, Suze Woolf, 2020, artist book, 8.75 x 6.75 x 3 in. / 22.2 x 17.14 x 7.6 cm.

Branch, laser-cut wood, iron-oxide-dyed felt, embroidery. Certain bark beetles that kill trees en masse carry with them a blue-grey staining fungus which helps them digest wood. Their characteristic patterns are shown on the covers. The fungi reach into wood with microfilaments, evoked by embroidery