from Egodeath theory 2006 main article
Discuss:
branching
handedness
contrasting
beard
direction of looking
degree of tolerance (judging when something “counts” or “doesn’t count”)
leaves
assumptions of significance or insignificance
Panofsky’s 2nd letter to Wasson (the father of ethnomycology):
even the most mushroom-like specimens show some traces of ramification; if artists had labored under the delusion that the model before him was meant to be a mushroom rather than a schematized tree he would have omitted the branches altogether.
Erwin Panofsky, the most influential art historian
which one is it? is it a mushroom, or, a schematized tree, instead? which one of these two meanings did the mushroom tree artists intend? the one that “some especially ignorant craftsman” “misapprehended”, under “delusion” (mushroom)? or the correct, right answer (anything but mushrooms)?
Assignment: Draw an image that expresses the effects of psilocybin mushrooms inducing an altered-state experience of the world as non-branching, as contrasted against the experience of a branching-possibility world in the ordinary state of consciousness. Would you depict a tree; or, instead, a mushroom? Would it be helpful to have templates showing options?
10 of 75 mushroom plants of Canterbury Psalter (13.3%) have no traces of ramification, and the middle 2 of 4 mushroom trees in this cathedral stained glass window have a trace of ramification:
kinda like Eve’s branching legs:
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