Artist: Olga Olen | DeerCore
Title: Mycelium Wolf
Medium: Papier-mache, acrylic paints, wood
Size: 32x30x6 cm
Ships from Germany
This sculpture presents a liminal creature, a three-legged wolf overtaken by fly agaric mushrooms. Suspended between decay and transformation, the animal exists in an ambiguous state: both animate and inert, familiar yet unmistakably altered.
I am drawn to strangeness that does not demand explanation. The wolf appears unusual simply because it can, inviting the viewer to accept the irrational rather than decode it. Walking the line between life and afterlife, the creature no longer fully belongs to itself. Like many folkloric beings, it occupies a threshold where natural and supernatural quietly merge.
Traditionally cast as a villain, the wolf embodies humanity’s fear of the deep forest and what cannot be controlled. Here, however, it is neither predator nor aggressor. The mushrooms, symbols of poison, transformation, and hidden networks, suggest not violence but gradual integration, a beautiful corruption unfolding from within.
In this work, the wolf becomes a figure of the forest itself: a somber keeper of its fragile, interconnected life. Mysterious yet governed by its own logic, it reflects the inseparable bonds that shape all living systems.
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