Tracing the Source
Become absorbed in the seductive world of this slime mould. Its luminous yellow traces like a neural network mapping its creative choices, transforming its habitat into art.
Engulfed Memory: The Multicellular Mausoleum
Glimpse the future in this ceramic sculpture enveloped by slime mould: a wandering, organism leaving luminous yellow traces. Like a neural network, these marks map its decision-making: faint and hesitant at the base, then confident across grooves and protrusions, transforming art into its habitat. Within lie motionless humans, preserved in blue resin-like substance. It is unclear whether the slime mould shields, ignores, or ingests them.
Engulfed Memory: The Multicellular Mausoleum
The inevitable evolutionary decline of human’s feeding on sub-human prey led to severely reduced circumstances for humans on Earth. Their genealogy eventually became interwoven into tissue mats of single celled carcinoma. They were aggressive survivors, metastasising in thin films over the planet leaving luminous flesh like trails. Their descendants were considered hopeless degenerates, multi-cellular melanomas, limited to carpeting lake shores as slimy proteinaceous mats of mould. They however retained consciousness and were able to witness their wretched decline. After an eternity of brutal degeneration, the mats of human tissue sensed something that could almost be described as hope, only to slip away quietly into even more depraved oblivion.
Informed by Koseman, C.M. 2025. All Tomorrows the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man. Wilton Square Books London.