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A few days later, you head off on your foraging trip. The ground is no longer an indistinguishable mass of brown and beige. Your gaze feels sharper: you notice the edge of a leaf; a knobbed tree root emerging above the soil; the rare morel and its characteristically wavy, honeycombed cap. You find your first one on the edge of a wooded area, and carry it into the sun to examine it, slicing into it with a paring knife to check if the inside is hollow.
Eventually, you return home with eleven morels. Your neck aches from stooping close to the ground all day, and a fine silt is pressed into your fingernails. But you’re incredibly pleased, smug really, and you take a photo for Alice and for the forum strangers that helped you out.
Easier than expected, you write on the forum. Hoping to do this again soon!
Celine Nguyen is a designer, design historian, and writer. She is an MA student in History of Design at the V&A Museum/Royal College of Art, where her research considers contemporary web aesthetics and their relationship to our ecological world. Right now, she wants to know: what does degrowth look like for the web?
