In the project Entropic Breakfast I have been exploring and photographing the notion of decay.
I photographed the degradation of my fridge contents and documented slime mould overtaking, holding time still, countering progress and improvement, evolving towards disaster. Taking time to think about it. Fridge, uncontrolled dark box. Behind its closed door: life, death, regeneration, the dehumanising aspect of modern existence. This project embodies the psychology of the age and the relentless system of growth. It gives a glimpse into what happens when the system gives up on looking for solutions to its mistakes.
Biological decay is invisible, yet suddenly apparent if you let it take over parts of your fridge. The global warming crisis is invisible to the eye due to its large scale. This work attempts to bring it back to a human scale in order to create an emotional understanding of the emergency.
Mould grows, like us humans do on the planet, taking over and destroying what is essential to our survival. For this project the mould is constantly growing, taking over and colonising the space it inhabits. It can come back from the dead; it is neither animal nor plant. It is mysterious and beautiful. This project documents the growth of the mould over time on a planet structure in order to create a sense of loss over time as the planet becomes overwhelmingly covered by Physarum polycephalum (also known as slime mould).
This project celebrates the artful and awful nature of a space taken over and out of human control. Looking at mould, like looking at humans is like looking at something both celestial and microcosmic simultaneously.
Slime mould is an intriguing intelligent single cell organism growing in cool, humid dark places and feeding on organic debris (here oat flakes). In this installation the slime mould is eating away at the oats in the same way as humans eat away the Earth. Creating a provoking installation.
