When you walk into a forest, or even just past a small patch of beautiful greenery or a garden,
do you look up at the trees or down at the grass?
当你走入一片森林，或只是经过一小片绿色的植被草地，你是会抬头望上往还是会低头往地上瞧呢？
I am obssess with the creatures lower down.
Dewdrops hidden among the moss, fallen trunks lying like boats on an ocean of green,
leaves painted with different colours by time, softening or remaining crispy...
我总是被低底下的东西迷住。青苔间有露水，倒下的树干像躺在绿色海里的船，落叶被时间染上不同颜色，或湿软或干脆......
Most importantly, mushrooms.
Their charm lies in their temporarity, uncertainty and interdeterminancy:
pop up in certain seasons, conditions and environments, but even the most experienced forager cannot guarantee their appearance.
最重要的是，蘑菇。
它们有趣在于具有时限性，不确定性和不稳定性：虽现身于固定季节，条件和环境，但即使是最有经验的森林觅食者也无法保证哪一种今天会出现。
I also love them for they symbolise the marginalised: they are creatures of the exotic, the repelled and the despised.
Sound familiar?
Yes, nature is cultured.
我还因为蘑菇象征着人类社会里的边缘群体而爱它们。它们或被稀奇看待，或被嫌弃，或被视而不见。
耳熟是吗？是呀，自然是被我们带着“文化视角”看待的。
Here I hope to offer them and myself a little mercy:
A little chance to be seen, thought of and cherished equally.
I call this act of making the invisible visible "fungisibility", literally about fungi and metaphorically about the beyond.
在此地我希望给它们，也是给我自己一点点怜悯：去给它们一个被等同看见，思考，珍惜对待的机会。
因此我创造了“显菌性”这样的一个概念去指代这样的让不可看见的被看见愿望 - 这样的看见关于菌菇们，且关于菌菇之外的象征事物。
Fungiseeing Gallery
A selection of photographs of my learning and exploitation of mushrooms and forest since 2023, noted with random provenance information and comments.
Mostly in woods and parks near Edinburgh, some in the Lake District, Eastbourne, 云南 Yunnan and 新疆 Xinjiang.
I am greedy.
I wish that one day I would be as thrilled as I am to find a puffball or a morel,
that is asking for a utopia of equality.
我是贪婪的。
我希望有朝一日当我遇见一颗马勃菌和一颗羊肚菌时我能做出等同兴奋的反应。
这是我在索要像乌托邦一样程度的平等性。
But for now,
I allow myself to indulge in the joy of their diversity and perculiarity.
只是，暂且地，我允许自己沉溺在它们奇特丰富的世界里。