The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds

This is a companion to the feature documentary, providing a deeper understanding of myxomycetes, or plasmodial slime moulds. These single-celled organisms are found in the natural world, shifting in form throughout their life cycle. Despite being mostly invisible to the naked eye, they are incredibly beautiful during their foraging or reproductive stages. They creep around forests and grasslands, with an agency that some have described as intelligent. Despite being overlooked by natural historians and the general public, small groups of scientists, artists, and visionaries have discovered extraordinary metaphors within their behavior patterns, inspiring practical applications such as computing devices, transport network designs, robot controllers, and even music. This offers insight into the film's makers and the perceptual world of the organism, bringing the reader into a unique and irrational encounter where time and space are magnified and intelligence redefined.

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