Two transformations unfold side by side.
On one side, Amanita fulva begins its ascent, rising from its protective volval remains as the stipe extends and the tawny cap gradually takes shape. Beside it, an orange slime mold develops across decaying material, forming a dense constellation of minute fruiting structures.
Parallel Lives brings these two processes into the same 28-second time-lapse. They share the frame, but not the same biology. Amanita fulva is a fungus, while slime molds belong to an entirely different evolutionary lineage. Their proximity makes the contrast all the more compelling: two organisms responding to the same small world through profoundly different forms of growth and development.
As the mushroom gains height and definition, the slime mold transforms at another scale. One builds a single, recognisable fruiting body; the other produces a multitude of tiny structures across the dark substrate. Neither follows the other, yet their changes unfold almost as a conversation between two rhythms of life.
That parallel development is what gives the sequence its unusual visual character. The eye moves between the rising mushroom and the intricate orange structures beside it, revealing how much biological activity can occupy only a small fragment of space.
Parallel Lives is a portrait of coexistence through time: different organisms, different strategies, different forms, unfolding together within a single scene.
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