“Torqueo” is the Latin root for “twisting” but also for “torture” and “torment”. This piece is the result of an infestation of a common soil fungus known as “Amillaria mellea”. Global warming is allowing this white fungus to become more aggressive, rotting out the interior of living trees. These apparently healthy trees will suddenly fall in a windstorm, but instead of pulling their roots up in the process, their trunks break like twigs, often twisting apart as they come down. Its sister piece,“Conruptus”, is created from the rootball of the same tree.
