Figuring Growing Mushrooms the Hirshhorn Museum

the Hirshhorn Museum

to pay attention to where I was before I lost it” Richard Holloway “Annie Dillard’s words are the outpouring of a brilliant mind tempered by a pleading heart

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but also the humanity and humour and

and new dialogues held on the occasion of this collection

Figuring Growing Mushrooms the Hirshhorn MuseumFiguring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalysed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists mostly