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== Through time and perception ==

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This project is about the perception of the passage of time and therefore about how other living things experience life, which may lack brains or eyes, but which continue to grow, create and generate life and energy on this planet. I have fixed my gaze on the Physarum Polycephalum, an organism that is somewhere in the protist kingdom, which has what they call a semi-intelligence, as it communicates between its branches and is capable of solving the labyrinths and crossroads that scientists propose to it. This is possible because it is a single-celled organism with multiple nuclei. It has a single wall that separates it from the world and inside it has a constant flow that helps it to grow and communicate through a fluid drive that carries communication and content, like a network. I would say it is a clear example of the definition of the philosophical term rhizome.

<blockquote>''"Contrary to graphism, drawing or photography, contrary to tracings, the rhizome is related to a map that must be produced, constructed,'' ''always detachable, connectable, alterable, modifiable, with multiple entrances and exits, with its vanishing lines (...). ) Contrary to centred'' ''systems (even polycentred), of hierarchical communication and pre-established unions, the rhizome is a centred system, non-hierarchical'' ''and non-signifying, without General, without organising memory or central automaton,'' ''defined only by a circulation of states".''</blockquote>Rhizome: Introduction to Mille Plateaux: Capitalisme et schizophrénie, 2, G. Deleuze and F. Guattari

Energy is therefore shared, matter is shared, everything is part of the same process that creates and destroys itself, a chaotic and enigmatic process that we cannot control. A constant explosion of life, with a constant and sincere rhythm, like an organic machine stretching its arms until it reaches death. That is the Physarum Polycephalum for me, an example of the expansion of life until its forces are exhausted.

For example, trees are in constant change, growing every second but with a different temporality that makes us not perceive this growth. For them we are flow, if the tree had eyes it would see a continuous distorted beam, just as we see the flow of water or the stars.

What I want to do in this project is to try to capture the movement of the Physarum Polycephalum, to place myself in its very perception of time. To stop time, my time, my rhythm and put myself in its place, for a while to feel its presence as my own, to stop in order to yield consciousness to another being.

[[File:Recording of different samples of Physarum Polycephalum seen through a magnifying glass and microscope..png|thumb|548x548px]]With translucent paper I would guide my pen where the Physarum Polycephalum has passed, so many times as to register the constant movement. At the end of one drawing, I would start another one immediately, and so on until I had exhausted all my strength. It would give rise to an installation between the performative, the register, the archive and the biological. The walls of the space would be covered with these drawings and registers.