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Abjecting MCM is a furniture-like sculpture grown from native Red Reishi mushrooms. This work locates Mid-Century Modern Design as a tool in the invention of whiteness as a modern American ideology and reveals its grotesque history. The production of the work as a biological piece illuminates this idea as an ideology and not a truth, an anti-monument, an effigy. The mushroom subverts this history and cross-pollinates with local fungal bodies, helping develop more genetic diversity in the subterrain microbiome. Abjecting is the mycological term for the release of spores by a fungus; and the shock when what was once hidden all around us is revealed.