The artist building sculptures out of living fungi

The artist building sculptures out of living fungi

At first, Xiaojing Yan’s Lingzhi artworks look like abandoned papier mâché sculptures. Their off-white forms are covered with a dusty layer of brown powder and odd growths sprout from all sides.A cat, a baby, the bust of a young girl, a boy surrounded by rabbits and a fawn – they all appear to be decomposing, left to rot.But in fact, Yan took great care and many months to bring these unsettling figures to their current state. To make them, the C…