Mutualism Bottle in Red

Verity Pulford lives and works rurally in North Wales her immediate environment provides much inspiration. Natural structures such as algae, lichen, moss, ferns, fungi and more recently sea plants and invertebrates.

Pulford is interested in the complexity of life- how within each organism are other organisms, each living its own unique existence, layer upon layer of complexity yet a universal oneness, the feeling that we are all the same thing- a system, in communion, a beautiful symphony.

Mutualism Bottles are part of Pulford’s Arts Council Wales Project. As part of this project, she has worked with Bangor University’s Ocean Sciences Department. These bottles were inspired by the large glass bottles and containers in which diatoms and plankton are kept within the laboratories of the university. The removable stoppers are made using the Pâte-de-Verre technique.