Photographer arranges colourful wild mushrooms into otherworldly art

Jill Bliss is an artist who lives on a small island in the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. Using a wide assortment of the beautifully vibrant wild fungi she finds, Bliss turns them into stunning arrangements and photographs them for a project she calls Nature Medleys.
A picture clicked by Jill Bliss
A picture clicked by Jill Bliss
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In 2012 she sold her house and nearly everything she owned to move to the island and reconnect with nature after a busy career as a designer in New York and San Francisco. “I’ve plunked down my life savings for a modest half acre of cleared land on a small island of 30 full-time households to live out the rest of my days in tune with the natural world,” said Bliss. "I satisfy my nomadic nature by holing up in various off-grid cabins on small islands, preferably with wild animals and semi-feral people for neighbors, mentors and muses," she added.

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