Mycelium Memory

because the mushrooms underneath us remember ….will we?

Hani חאני Esther Indictor Portner (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, tour guide, historian,and Jewish witch blooming and rooting in Berlin

Photographed during a class for Hillel Deutschland

Latest posts

  • Parting of the Red Sea

    In the Passover Chag spirit I painted this piece as my interpretation of the crossing and parting of the red sea. I thought of this image of the marine life just looking from the walls of water onto the people and how this marvel must have looked. Here is my version. gouache, acrylic ink, and…

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  • Sunsets in Gouache

    Lately I have been really enjoying painting sunsets in Gouache. It really relaxes and grounds me and I have enjoyed the confidence of painting a sunset that Gouache gives me. It is just so fun too! I use fluid big bottles. I use them also for the workshops that will be happening later this year…

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  • Early Spring Fairy Foraging Newsletter

    Hello Spring  Bluebells and Lilacs!  The sun has been shining longer than the usual winter darkness in Berlin and the rain has produced beautiful spring croci in purple and yellow. If you look you can find three-cornered leeks growing in the forest, waiting for us to celebrate and make into pesto. I have a few…

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Testimonials

Lou :

Hani’s events are always such a joy to go to. They put so much care into creating a non-judgmental, welcoming space for fun learning and feeling wonder at the many beautiful and powerful things our more than human relatives have to offer. The events are one of the few places left that set firm boundaries to create a covid safer space and make me feel extra relaxed thanks to that. Centering and celebrating trans disabled experiences in their work always brings so much healing power as well. I always leave restored and connected and hopeful. Wonderful offerings.

BDB :

Most wholesome, relevant group activity in Berlin. Twig’s art is accessible and activity oriented. l learned about and have a relationship with yarrow. l noticed a significant change in the energy and safety of the events when hate increased and l want that to go away. Twig’s workshops encourage a better relationship with knowledge, not based on competition and conceit, that the Berlin public desperately needs.

Rebecca Agnes :

During 2023 I joined different walks Hani offered in different seasons and places; Tegel forest in Spring, Peacock Island, and Grünewald in Summer, Swamp of Borgsdorf in Autumn. What I appreciate is the fact that each walk combines the experience of being in a natural surrounding, with its chance encounters with mushrooms, plants, and trees, with historical facts and practices of remembrance about queer life and characters often overlooked in history. Hani combines the acquisition of new knowledge related to plants with the testimony of Jewish, Queer and Trans lives in the recent past of Berlin.

Rebecca R :

Hani is such a thoughtful, caring and insightful person. They make sure everyone feels welcomed to any events that they do and they make sure to make it as acceptable as possible. I admire their eye for details and it is such a joy to listen to them when they share their wisdom and knowledge. After any encounter I had with Hani I feel slightly better. I recommend any event of Hani’s wholeheartedly.