(When I am not writing fiction, I am creating videos like this.)
This short animation was inspired by “The Blob”:
Physarum polycephalum—an organism that moves without a brain, thinks without a mind. It pulses outward in search of food and connection, solving mazes, remembering paths, thriving in the quiet damp. Neither plant, nor animal, nor fungus, the blob is something in between.
When one blob meets another, it can pass on knowledge—sharing, for example, the memory of how to complete a maze. It can dry up entirely, suspend itself in time, then awaken again when the air is right.
But what draws me to it is the way it dissolves the boundaries we take for granted. It’s a model of communication without speech, of bodies that blur and seep into one another, of identities that aren’t fixed but fluid.
This animation grew from that idea: that we might touch, merge, transform—that we might become each other.
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