To make this series I shot the same scene in some local bushland on 4 rolls of 35mm black and white film, one after the other. These rolls were then exposed to soil samples from the site, and fungus from the soil began to consume and grow through the negatives. Simultaneously the film’s emulsion is softened by moisture and begins to peel away, leaving the images balancing between decomposition and growth. There is an ambiguous continuity between organism and material throughout the series. The film becomes a lively ecology, inviting and celebrating contamination and collaboration, where an ecosystem plays an active part in its own visualisation. The fungal blooms throughout the film appear at times like areal landscapes, existing in a new perspective plane to the image shot through the camera. A documentation of the organism’s own exploration and self-expression over the photographic surface is fossilised into multiple exposure of-sort. Particles and specs of dirt and soil matter become involved in the images, sticking to and becoming mixed into the emulsion. Though each image shot on the film repeats without change, the fungal growth augments and obscures each photograph in surprising ways. More often than not, the original image is lost, consumed and replaced by the organism and particles of soil.