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What's more is how fungi transform the world we inhabit as their role of decomposers. Breaking down leaves, wood and other organisms, transforming them into soil and nutrients so that the life cycle can continue. How fungi are both dwellers of life and death, actively shaping our existence on earth. How fungi are ever-present, as with each breath we inhale fungal spores, and how their relationship with our human lives has shaped food cultures over centuries - and how the new interest in mycology means they'll continue to shape to do so in the future.

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However, the most compelling part of the artistic process became the realisation of how much fungi transformed the way we ourselves perceive the world around us through our continued collaboration with them. Learning about them meant also looking at what they can teach us through their relationships with other organisms, especially simbiotic or mutualistic ones. How, in order to survive and thrive, they depend on others as much as others depend on them. Allowing their presence to change our awareness towards our daily relations with everything other - not just human but also objects and other-than-human animals and organisms, including the microscopic ones. Those that we don't see or notice but that we need. And strengthening our awareness that all organisms are interdependent, interrelated, entangled.