Breathing With The Forest

3-channel video installation with 20.2 channel spatial sound

By Marshmallow Laser Feast with spatial sound score by James Bulley

Online, Emergence Magazine (May 2025)
Shifting Landscapes, Emergence Magazine, Oxo, London (December 2023)

Breathing with the Forest is an immersive video installation that illuminates the reciprocity of the ecosystem surrounding a capinuri tree (Maquira coriacea) in the Colombian Amazon. In recreating a real plot of Amazonian forest in its full majesty and astounding detail, the installation reveals the beauty and fragility of these tropical environments as it brings to light  the many delicate symbiotic relationships that exist between major kingdoms of life. 

Surrounded by the rainforest’s pulsing rhythms, visitors come to synchronise their breath with audiovisual cues born of the forest, and a hidden network of interconnections emerge. In this moment of communion, Breathing with the Forest nurtures a sense of connection with the more-than-human world.

Text by Marshmallow Laser Feast, for further information please see here.

Commissioned by Emergence Magazine.