In Venice in 2001, I bought some prints of edible mushrooms. A year later in New York, I acquired a general guide to identifying Fungi, and in it, I discovered a highly poisonous mushroom named Amanita Virosa – “The Destroying Angel” in Latin. Ingestion of this mushroom causes destruction of the body and death; at the same time however, a minute quantity can be used for healing, in which case the outcome is reversed, and it can work wonders, revive and rebuild. This is the basis of the whole project.

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