Design

An Art Exhibit Underneath London Made of Entirely of Fungus

"The Majesty" is an installation in an abandoned London railway vault that's crawling with slow-moving, spore-spitting mold.
VIGO Gallery

Love art that oozes? Then head on down to "The Majesty," an installation in an abandoned London railway vault that's crawling with slow-moving, spore-spitting fungi.

This eldritch vision was created by horticortural artists Tony Heywood and Alison Condie (represented by VIGO Gallery), whose respective backgrounds in gardening and botany/zoology come through here loud and mucusy. For now, the exhibit looks like a moonlit mountain crag that's been colonized with glittering alien lifeforms. Over the course of the summer, however, it will gradually shift appearances as a specially chosen species of mold pops into being and begins to move over the entire installation. At the end, it should look like the Blob grew an appreciation for fine art. Wear painter's masks.