There is a dissonance between the way we think and the way both humans and nature work. Humans draw lines in a world made out systems in which there is no such thing as something separate form something else. This work wants to bring this dissonance closer to harmony.  

The way we walk and navigate through the city of Lancaster is a complex system. The screen displays the route of a 30km walk I did through the city of Lancaster to better understand the system. However, I am part of the system. And there is a limit to the consciousness you can achieve from inside a system. The system emerges out of the relationship of the individual parts that are constantly changing at different levels simultaneously. So, the parts are blind. When we walk, we are writing the system without being able to read it.

Too overcome this blindness I am using the lens of slime mould. Here I am collaborating with a living organism or rather a swarm of unicellular organisms that grows connecting sources of food. Its growth pattern is similar to emergent systems like cities or neurones. The slime mould is in a transparent maze of the city of Lancaster copying the exact layout of the cities streets.