Fungi Luciferin

FUNGI LUCIFERIN

2022

Wood ,Used Car, electronics Mixed media.
Mark Andreas, was Invited to traveled to Japan as part of his Finnish-American Art collective Videokaffe , to collaborate with members of C.A.P Kobe and C-Space Japanese artist to build an outdoor public sculpture for one of the largest annual art festivals in Japan, Rokko Meets Art festival. For this year’s festival Andreas‘s selected entry was an interactive sculpture exploring the world of mushrooms and the hidden, interconnected living network they create. The sculpture depicts two giant handcrafted wooden mushrooms devouring a car. In addition, the mushrooms can recognize human speech and will respond with sound and light. It is a symbol of how fungi, known as “nature’s house keepers”, create a living network that connects much of the plant world and to some extent the animal world, too. This sculpture will be on display until November 23rd 2022 at the Rokko International Musical Box Museum in Kobe