Mushrooms

Mushrooms

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yu_ling chen

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April 23, 2026

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Christine wang, haibo wang, met with me during the pandemic. She soon stopped messaging me back after she found out I was living alone in that apartment, 135 Isabella street. I started to see C magazine in the bookstores. Then in 2023 after a consultation with OCAD university advisor who had short hair I started to submit to the c magazine writing c magazine reviews. It turned out it’s all about those mushrooms I encountered on my hike. I had written about how people should use more mushroom fibres in making clothes and everything in order to combat oil economy and pollutions. It bothered me to no end she had stopped responding like all sorts of other people from OCAD and every school I attended and everywhere. I got a feeling they tried to copy my works but can’t. They became very resentful. I had a conversation with Alex Matheson once, a guy I met first in front of the confederation centre of arts. He was very racist. I didn’t like him. He talked at length about his drug behaviours and how he found magic mushroom out in the wild. I found him disturbing. I’d rather hang out with the African foreign exchange student in University of Prince Edward Island. However, I also found them sexist. I hate that. So I resort to hang out with myself and other people who are neither of those things. Etc. 

It was all about how my dad’s friend, zhang Ziku’s son, zhang guangjie, don’t like eating mushroom. He couldn’t eat it like I couldn’t eat eggplants. I found this strange. This aversion of mushroom. He later studied chemistry like I did working on a master degree in Australia and his thesis of using bio materials and decomposition in his soil study. It was difficult to understand until he explained it. My thesis(non-thesis/final project) from university of Prince Edward Island and Sichuan university studying chemistry was experimenting in the lab with different substance, chemicals and products to get their purity extracts in order to make a statement about how people can be more environmentally friendly on the planet. I specifically used salt in my works. It was exhilarating. I wrote at length of how oil pollutes the sea. It’s making the pollution the foams on the sea. It was about Hong Kong. It was about dissents. It was about chan yin-lam’s body floating on the sea. It’s about how people viewed it as an image of sacrilege when in reality it is not an image but a fact of the pollution, of sea, of the power of engines, planets and energies. It has nothing to do with religions, superstitions and magic. It is democracy. It is a democratic action oriented reform. It is opposition. It is politics. It is about Donald j. Trump and his sanctions in Hong Kong. Etc.