The Mushroom as Muse
In this article, mushroom are a lot of artists’ muse. In the article, writer describe mushroom as, “it could be a bacterium pressed on a microscope slide, or a full-scale building, set with trees and bushes. A trio of yellow-capped Amanita muscaria—mildly psychoactive, if you care to partake—stand on a halved purple cabbage set in front one of its velvet-gray outer leaves, like a bandstand, or a clamshell: a mycological Venus.” Mushroom like plants, mushrooms root and grow, but they’re not plants. Like animals, they seek and digest food, but they’re not animals. Mushroom becomes an object of elemental contemplation: one life from another life, a tuft of moss, earth to earth.
