The fungi link the passage of life to death and are the vectors of eternity.
Beneath the greensward lies the hidden great life and its profoundly interconnected mycelia.
These bootlace structures run through every part of this more than human world.
Through their essential being, they translate the latency of pure energy into new forms via the brief state of death.
They continuously cycle and recycle the biotic and abiotic realms and are the link in the wild dance of life.
Briefly appearing from the Stygian deep they grace our world of light with strange and alien form.
In their short time beneath the sun they release countless billions of spores to the four winds before melting beneath it’s withering glare.
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