IFFF Belgium – 2019

International Fungi & Fibre Newsletter 2019

BELGIUM~ Marina Lamsens

Flanders, Belgium ‘Mushrooms everywhere!’ An abundance never seen before . We wander through the woods with a camera “to catch” the autumn fruit bodies of the hidden mycelia. We do not have baskets with us to collect specimens because… It is forbidden to pick them: nature protection rules. So we continue our mushroomdye-experiments for small projects with the material we brought from Norway or abroad. www.fungalfutures.com www.glimps.bio/bootcamp www.dewereldvankina.be Officina corpuscoli, e.a In Brussels, “Nuances de plantes “ organized a congres: ”Du pourpre à la pourpre”. Two days of purple workshops, conferences and exhibition. Annie, Maggy and me contributed with purple dyed (also lichen) fabrics in the collective artwork. Foto by Marina Lamsens: Color purple collective work, 2018 Maria Boto Ordonez showed us in the congres the exciting experiments with bacteria that create color! She does research in the Experimental Biolab for Art and Design KASK School of Arts Belgium, Ghent. So, living in this small country, we hear young people talking about mushrooms, alternative dye processes and mycelium! Almost whispering and spreading the mysterious mushroom knowledge, we dream about healthy forests, plenty of mushrooms and we are waiting for the “benediction” to harvest them!! Kind regards from Flanders, Belgium, Marina Lamsens