Led astray into a sinister ecotone, a transition-area hazily synthesising the genetic accretion of deep-rooted lore and wild matter, your path fills with the scent of decay; of ancient rot. Marsh gas permeates. Its dank putrescence is pregnant with 200,000 years of myth congealing across your olfactory cortex. You absorb your surroundings - a viral meadow mutating your sacred biology from within. Like toothwort exploiting your roots, you are congenitally ambient. Mutually corruptive. Becoming-sylvanian-anagram of unfleshed anatomy, your procedural arboraceous rebirth is rendered in the virtual slag of volumetric data. An accidental petrosomatoglyph encoded for auto-extractivism; a cyber-vegetal fable for...
Led astray into a sinister ecotone, a transition-area hazily synthesising the genetic accretion of deep-rooted lore and wild matter, your path fills with the scent of decay; of ancient rot. Marsh gas permeates. Its dank putrescence is pregnant with 200,000 years of myth congealing across your olfactory cortex. You absorb your surroundings - a viral meadow mutating your sacred biology from within. Like toothwort exploiting your roots, you are congenitally ambient. Mutually corruptive.
Becoming-sylvanian-anagram of unfleshed anatomy, your procedural arboraceous rebirth is rendered in the virtual slag of volumetric data. An accidental petrosomatoglyph encoded for auto-extractivism; a cyber-vegetal fable for slow extinction. Take your place among the Green Man, Holly and Oak Kings, flower-faced golem, the mischievous Spriggan: you awaken by your camp as a kitbashed live simulation modelling the malignant journey of evolution.
The fire slowly extinguishes itself as our campsite collapses into itself, disappearing into the fog on the horizon. A Wild Man once lived beyond these hallows, ruled by animal instincts and incapable of all reason. Rest here a while, traveller. You are safe. It has been a long arduous journey for the weary. Take this lump of burnt organic matter with you, you may need it.
This exhibition is supported by Arts Council England.
