Spor-ing

Today, in my first day of trying to be a normal person again, I have been trying not to hover over my dad. Instead, I made new spore prints with George. I am captivated by this whole idea, mushrooms dropping spores onto paper to make a print. I like that this is the most efficient way to identify a mushroom - how poetic. George loves mushrooms, and he also loves John Cage. We both delighted in the New Yorker article last year which detailed how he used his mushroom expertise to support himself in New York, picking mushrooms upstate and selling them to chefs in the city. I have always loved a monoprint, and any printing from nature.