Hooops Magazine - Plant Magic

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PLANT MAGIC - Poison∼Remedy

Healing with plants is messy, complex and astonishing.

This magazine is a devotion to the green things, the living beings, the magical blooming ones. In the midst of collapse, seeds are still sprouting, flowers are still blooming, mushrooms are still growing. Magic is alive.

We invited writers, artists, poets, illustrators, plant-and-mushroom-lovers and ecological thinkers, to share their experiences, knowledges, and stories around plant and mushroom magic. Oscillating between poison and remedy, plants and mushrooms reconcile ambivalences. They are powerful agents that are unpredictable in their existence and effects. They hold potential for resistance, intelligence and knowledge beyond human understanding. When we look at plants and mushrooms we see hope amongst ecological grief. Every day we witness this magic of growing organisms, transformation and resilience. We are looking to them for guidance while still learning to listen to their silent, sensual ways. Often, the act of listening itself can calm our buzzing minds and raging hearts and make meaning blossom in a wordless way. In this publication, you might encounter stories of creating relationships with plants and mushrooms, fungal intimacy, poetic love letters to plants, herbal spells, stories of becoming postcolonial mushrooms, tips for combating the disturbing presence of scorpions, an essay introducing you to psychedelic becoming and many visual contributions of more-than-human relations.

Contributors

Aimilia Efthimiou

Anais-karenin

Anı Ekin Özdemir

Avant Garden

Bastian Carstensen

Carla Di Girolamo

Coline-Lou Ramonet Bonis

Corinne Wiss

Cory Papalardo

Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson

Freia Kuper

Freya Häberlein

Indra Leonard Frings

Ko-Fan Lin

Leonie Brandner

Lucie Feigl

Lucila Pacheco Dehne

Marta Orlando

Maya Land

Monaline Mourbat

Nicola van Straaten

Nina Berfelde

Rafa Cunha

Rahel Preisser

Sara Blosseville

Shani Leseman

Yasmine Ostendorf

Sigourney Pilz

Totholz

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