Phyllis Ma’s portraits of mushrooms celebrate the grotesqueness of her fungal subjects while insisting on their aesthetic eloquence.
John Cage, the avant-garde composer, was also a passionate mushroom forager. In his 1954 essay “Music Lovers’ Field Companion,” he wrote about his habit of going into the woods and “conducting performances of my silent piece”—his, “4’33”,” in which ambient sounds are the only music—while attempting to identify nearby fungi. “The more you know them, the less sure you feel about identifying them,” Cage said, almost three decades later, in a conversation with the French musician Daniel Charles.
In the mind of a human preoccupied with such things as mortality and the irrevocable passage of time, any serious contemplation of the world of mushrooms edges toward nightmare. Even an ordinary supermarket button cap is so physical, so fragile, with a strangeness verging on the alien and a potent whiff of death and decay. Some mushrooms are edible, others exquisitely poisonous. Like plants, mushrooms root and grow, but they’re not plants.
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