Métafor[Ma]se

Continuing with meta-metamorphosis, here is an exhibition based on the similarities between an urban journey in Tokyo and the blob.

I thought this was a fairly well-known subject, but when I talked about it with people around me, I realized that it wasn’t so well known after all. the blob, or Physarum polycephalum, is a single-celled species of myxomycete that is neither animal, plant, nor fungus.
It is a single-celled organism with no brain, visible to the naked eye, which always finds the most pragmatic path to food.

What is the connection with Tokyo, you may ask?

Numerous studies have been conducted on this exceptional creature, including an experiment that compares Tokyo’s rail network with the path that the blob would choose. By placing food sources at key points in the city, the blob’s network closely resembles Tokyo’s, which was therefore built in the most efficient way possible.

The idea is to graphically represent studies on the city and its layers, its plant inhabitants (sakura trees, water, etc.) and the blob. Working from micro to macro.
The idea is similar to the graphic work on the pine tree in Rome, but for Tokyo.