Fly Agaric
Marshmallow Laser Feast
Soils around the world are contaminated, worn, over-blown and exhausted. How did you reach where you consider the soil to be dirt? The soil is bustling with life and intersected with difficult complexity in connections, numerous symbiotic partnerships between plant roots, mycorrhizal fungi, and nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
Up to half of the living biomass in the soil is made up of these networks. The soil is filled with about a third of carbon people each year. They hold three times the amount of carbon as much as the living biomass on the ground and twice as much as the atmosphere. We must rediscover the important importance of soil in our lives and the future of our planet. That is the purpose of the new exhibition at Somerset House in London. Soil: Our Foot Worldco-curated by Henrietta Courtard and Bridget Elwasy, and will run until April 13th.
Excavation – Mycelium
Joe Pearl/Elza Pearl
The above picture shows ceramic representations of fungi and ceramic representations of mycelial networks in soil. Excavated – Mycelium Joe Pearl said “We bring life to clay and clay into life.” The photo below is the work Form diversity. These stunning bacterial colonies were grown by Else Hesse and photographed by Tim Cockelil. The main picture is Fly Agaric iby Art Collective Marshmallow Laser Feast. This installation depicts a pulsating living underground symbiotic network.
“We can’t care about things we don’t know,” says Pearl. “And if we save the soil, we must look closely at what is often dismissed as “stains,” and realize that our lives depend on their wealth. . ”
Diversity of forms.
Dr. Tim Cockelil
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Source: www.newscientist.com
