Explorations in lichenology, art, and social change
“if… a people lose touch with their capacity to create, lose sight of their will and their power to make art, then the work of subjugation, of colonization, is complete. Such work can be undone only by acts of concrete reclamation.” – bell hooks, in Art on my Mind: Visual Politics (1995)


Homemade brushes made with wild turkey feathers that i docs in my yard, their shafts, and a twig from a forsynthia shrub ♡
#diypaintbrushes #paintbrushes
2 days ago
I'm hoping this lil box becomes a big hit for my garden #voles... #DIY box, basic design shared by #EliotColeman in one of his many amazing organic gardening / farming books ♡
2 days ago

Happy New Moon in Virgo ♡ Hoping everybody is getting a moment to light their sacred fire inside themselves, that fire that nourishes us so deeply that the roots of the collective consciosness feels it, hums with it, the katydids rattling into a mighty roar!
#newmooninvirgo
7 days ago

Highly recommended! It took me a few months to pull it from the shelves, cause I'd misunderstood the title. I'd thought it was yet another book on climate change and what we can do about it (in superficial ways) - but I should have remembered that the author Dougald Hine is the co-founder of Dark Mountain Project and that of course he'd be prying beneath the structures of domination down to the foundations of our stories. I was challenged by it in parts, but ultimately in very good ways... Highly recommended!
#ecolit #darkmountainproject #climatechange #modernity #hospicingmodernity
2 weeks ago

Breaking through #2
#oilpainting #ecocontemplativeart
1 month ago
Just finished making this carrying case for painting in the field! Forest beings, I'm on my way!
#woodworking #whiteoak #pleinairpainting #oilpainting #whiteoak #homemilledlumber
2 months ago

8 foot tall Tiger Lillies? Yes indeed! Cold Mountain is a blooming - and not just the flowers! Check out that big smile! I love being out with this guy ♡
#lilliumsuperbum #turkscaplily #coldmountain #southernappalachians
2 months ago

Looking at lichens feels a little bit like jumping down the rabbithole as Alice... a wonderland indeed!
Heres the prompt... Imagine you are 10 um tall, what might it feel like to walk the landscape of a Lecidea tesselata thallus?
This is what i imagine it to be... the cracks between the areoles would be like slot canyons, the upper cortex would be like the petrified sand dunes and slick rock of the Colorado Plateau in Utah, and the algae would be like those hanging gardens found in the canyons...
And after youre done imagining, then zoom back out and find yourself wherever you are, at the top of one of the tallest mountains in the eastern US, or a sunny rock outcrop somewhere... and maybe ponder about tech shrinkimg us humans rather than sending us to live in outer space...
#lichenart #lichens #southernappalachians
#imagination #ecocontemplativeart
#watercolor
2 months ago

The beautiful and labyrinthoid Lecidea tesselata... probably a sensu latu bevause I don't know the state of Lecidea taxonomy in the Southern Appalachians, but who here is keeping track?!
#lichens
2 months ago