ABSTRACT
Soil is the matrix upon which all terrestrial life depends, and soil organisms are largely responsible for performing its many vital functions. Despite this, the soil biota and its essential activities are often overlooked. In this context, the life-forms that live in soil carry out a huge range of vital processes that are essential for soil health and fertility, and so the work and processes described in this chapter seek to reveal the activity of soil's disregarded life, and to bring its subtle and usually hidden narratives to light. In the works and explorations here, molecular microbiologist and visual artist Dr. Simon Park regards the members of the soil biota very much as independent agents, and thus as cocreators in the aesthetic process, so that each work is generated by the soil itself rather than simply being a representation of it.
