Where does the living body begin and where does it end? By peering under our skin we reveal the tidal rhythms of oxygen flowing through the branching ecosystem of the human body. Marshmallow Laser Feast aims to challenge notions of boundaries between us and our environment with The Tides Within Us. These prints are part of a larger video work that features interactive screens that allow you to explore the human ecosystem to paint a picture of the human body as a fluid event.
Artist statement
The atmosphere is a co-creation of all breathing beings, you only exist in relation to everything else. The trees, mycelium, bacteria, pollinators, oceans are as much a part of you as your own body.
If you could explore yourself, you would discover that just below your skin you are a branching being made of currents and rivers, the world flows into you and you flow into the world.
Artist video
Below, Ersin Han Ersin wanders among the Victorian landscape and explains Marshmallow Laser Feast's connection to nature.
Works of Nature Soundscape: Collectivity
While developing the artworks featured in Works of Nature, Marshmallow Laser Feast conducted a series of interviews with the foremost thinkers on nature, life and the more-than-human world. These include internationally renowned cultural ecologist and geophilosopher Dr David Abram, Professor of Plant-Soil-Processes at the University of Sheffield Katie J Field, author and founder of Schumacher College Dr Stephan Harding, and biologist and bestselling author Dr Merlin Sheldrake.
In this episode, they discuss the interconnectedness of different organisms and different species – including us.
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Artwork above right: Torso. Below left to right: Hand #1, Hand #2, Head, Lung #2, Lungs #1
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