You're a Suillus mushroom.
You are essential to the health of a forest, as your mycelium connects the roots of trees and allows them to share nutrients and information. In old growths, you permeate the underground for hundreds of miles; now, you want to make it big in the city of stars: Los Angeles.
But, in an urban LA where both souls and soil scatter among the sprawl, how do you take hold?
The answer lies in co-opting an existing physical network, one that has been a part of the city since its beginning—the US Postal Network.
- As a mushroom enthusiast and environmentalist, I was bothered by the lack of mycorrhizal (connective) fungi in the urban LA ecosystem.
- Identified context-appropriate alternatives to natural systems: mycelium network to postal network, animal propagators to human propagators, etc.
- Developed methodology for delineating appropriate sites and process for spreading spores.
- Distilled research into a digestible and functional mailer.
