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Mycelium Drawing Study

2026

Mycelium Drawing Study, 2026. Animation, 2 min 45 s, silent. All rights reserved

About the work

Mycelium Drawing is a study made from 143 hyphae of the fungus Podospora anserina, each traced from a laboratory time-lapse of a single thallus growing on agar, recorded by Éric Herbert and colleagues at Université Paris Cité. Every line is a real filament: its shape is the path the hypha took across the plate, and its weight is the speed at which it grew. Each iteration draws twelve hyphae together from base to tip, and a thirteenth arrives late.

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Source recording: Éric Herbert, Growth of Podospora anserina fungal network, figshare, 2019, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9897056, CC BY 4.0. Made for Dikec et al., Scientific Reports 10, 3131 (2020).

Extraction, tracing, and animation in Python (NumPy, SciPy, scikit-image, OpenCV, Matplotlib); encoded with FFmpeg.

creaturely

2026

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photonic emergence, 2026. Excerpt, 1 min 26 s of 5 min 4 s: the title, the first page of the code poem, and the seahorse morph
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sonic field, 2026. Excerpt, 1 min 9 s of 4 min 7 s: the title, the first page of the code poem, and the second bird morph
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filament, 2026. Excerpt, 1 min 23 s of 5 min 32 s: the title, the first page of the code poem, and the mycelium-to-moth morph

Each of the animations in creaturely began from a poem written in the form of a Python script which took as its starting point a quote in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein from the creature's own narrative of his awakening consciousness. The animations borrow the form of the calligram, as each poem seeks to bring to life its content. Letters morph into a seahorse, birds, and moths, which multiply, sing, or tremble in response to real-world data including hydrophone recordings, radio waves from the magnetosphere, birdsong, and fungal electrical signals.

The photonic emergence collar: a hand-embroidered collar on silk organza with a purple seahorse, blue creatures and pale coral forms. The sonic field collar: a hand-embroidered collar on silk organza with birds in thread and beads. The filament collar: a hand-embroidered collar on silk organza with moths and fine mycelial lines.
photonic emergence collar, 2026. Hand embroidery on silk organza: thread, beads, and couture techniques. 18 × 18 inchessonic field collar, 2026. Hand embroidery on silk organza: thread, beads, and couture techniques. 18 × 18 inchesfilament collar, 2026. Hand embroidery on silk organza: thread, beads, and couture techniques. 18 × 18 inches

Three embroidered collars bring the imagery from the animations into physical form, connecting the human hand to the virtual world and extending the collaboration through embodied and tactile experience.

Supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Cordyceps Septet

2026

Seven lines of light in a dark field, with gold arcs joining channels that spike together and blue threads of the model's attention.
Electrical activity in the Cordyceps militaris fungus rendered as light and sound against the reading of a small model trained on the voltage data
Thousands of fine pale lines tangled into a long cloud on a dark ground, densest along its centre and loosening into single wandering lines at the edges. Fine horizontal stripes of light and dark on a dark ground, grouped in bands from top to bottom, like a woven textile.
Thread Studies: Inner paths and Attention frieze

Cephalopod Songs

2026

A slab of cephalopod skin seen in section at night in a green dream, dim and blue-green. The same skin under daylight: pale discs over blue plates over white.
A cross-section of cephalopod skin asleep under a week of recorded light, with the reading of a small model trained on each record. Arctic: Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, 9 m. Reef: Davies Reef, Great Barrier Reef, 1.9 m
Fine horizontal stripes of light and dark on a dark ground, in seven slanting bands, irregular from day to day, like a woven textile. The same frieze for the Reef record: seven slanting bands, more regular.
Attention Studies: Attention frieze, Arctic and Reef