“These little, slightly eerie, magical spores that hang out in the dark are all sorts of incredible” 🍄 JohnCage
Cage’s lifelong love affair with funghi was born of necessity. He first discovered the magic of mushrooms during the Great Depression when, lacking the money to buy food, he began foraging in his native California environs for sustenance. Success did not dim Cage’s passion in the least. In the 1950s, while living on an artist commune in rural New York, Cage resumed mushroom hunts, developing a practice of studying and collecting them that would last throughout his days.
“Cage’s holistic intelligence is something we can all learn from,” says Ananda Pellerin, the book’s editor and the former senior editor of. “He was inquisitive and curious, an avid experimenter and generous with his own talents. He was conceptually free and enjoyed cerebral pursuits, but did not take himself too seriously and always got his hands dirty. Plus, he aimed to eat and feed others well.”
Cage dedicated himself to the mushroom in other ways. After teaching a class on mushroom identification at the New School for Social Research in 1959, he helped to resurrect the New York Mycological Society, a group dedicated to foraging together and exchanging recipes.Photography by William Gedney. Courtesy of the William Gedney Photographs and Papers, David M.
, an edition of 75 lithograph sets co-authored with fellow New York Mycological Society founding member and illustrator Lois Long and botanist Alexander H. Smith.is a fantastical journey into a familiar and foreign world, as multi-dimensional as Cage and the mushrooms themselves. Pellerin reveals: “We continue to discover so much about what mushrooms can do – from psilocybin helping with anxiety and depression to us figuring out how to incorporate funghi ‘leather’ into our wardrobes.
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