Beneath our feet hums another world, expansive and inventive, yet concealed from view. Fly Agaric I is part of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s Poetics of Soil series illuminating the hidden kingdoms of life underground.

https://marshmallowlaserfeast.com/project/poetics-of-soil-fly-agaric-i-video-installation/

Originally commissioned by Somerset House for the 2025 exhibition Soil, Fly Agaric I took the systems I had developed for Sanctuary into a fully digitally created environment (as opposed to LiDAR scanned from life), scaled down to focus on a single Fly Agaric.

Credits

Poetics of Soil: Fly Agaric I, 2025

An Artwork by Marshmallow Laser Feast

(Ersin Han Ersin, Barnaby Steel, Robin McNicholas)

Words and Voice: Merlin Sheldrake

Executive Producers: Carolina Vallejo, Eleanor (Nell) Whitley, Mike Jones

Music, Sound Design and Spatialisation: James Bulley

Lead Producer: Emma Hamilton

Lead Artist: Quentin Corker-Marin

Houdini Technical VFX Artist: Nicolas Le Dren

Infrastructure Lead: Andrew Robinson

Head of Studio: Sarah Gamper Marconi

Studio Administrator & Production Assistant: Alexandra McRobbie

Scientific Advisors & Contributors: Francis Martin, Jamie Lochhead, Merlin Sheldrake