Spinning Amanita

Spinning Amanita

Spinning Amanita (2025) is a naturalistic, life-sized replica of a fly agaric mushroom made in painted metal. It spins around it’s own axis, driven by a solar-powered motor attached underneath. The sculpture can be installed in a garden or brought into the forest with the motor hidden in the soil, as if the mushroom has grown there naturally.

Life-sized fly agaric mushroom replica in painted stainless steel, stainless steel housing motor, cables, Li-ion battery, charge and discharge controllers, control box in steel (on/off, speed), two solar panels (variable according to sun exposure)
Variable dimensions
Motor with Fly agaric: 62 x 18.2 x 18.2 cm

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Solar panels

all images courtesy of Carsten Höller