A Field Artist Protocol
This past Autumn, 2025, Dark Mountain Project published Uncivilized Art, Issue 28, a book about, well, art that unearths the wild. In it is a two part essay that I wrote about my arts practice, lichens as emergent properties (what’s a lichen, you ask? I’ve got you covered), and consciousness as emergent properties (emergent properties […]
Eclipses of September 2024 & March 2025: Hurricane Helene and the Spring WNC Wildfires – Regional Initiations
For Western Astrologers, the years 2025-2026 are some of the most profound years of our lifetimes, and the two major catastrophes that have hit the southeastern U.S. just happened during two recent eclipse seasons. In sum: it’s initiation time. Mutual Aid. Strategy. Building structures that support our visions for more equitable futures.
Mars Retrograde – From Depletion to Empowerment
We’re now in the middle of Mars Retrograde, and likely you are wondering whether this Mars retrograde is a doomed failure. You might feel extra tired, lethargic, heavy, scared, or apathetic – or you might be feeling explosive, irritable, and over-stimulated. This is normal. But it doesn’t mean you should have cancelled everything and crawled […]
Upcoming Lichen Worskhop at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont – February 2025
Have you been interested in learning more about lichens? Join me, my partner Jason Hollinger (lichenologist and photographer) and John DiDiego (Tremont’s Education Director) in a weekend long lichen workshop – one that integrates lichen taxonomy and ecology with lichen poetics. The workshop is being held on Valentine’s Day weekend – and lichens are the […]
Dark Mountain Project: Book Review of “The Lichen Museum”
Last year, artist A. Laurie Palmer, in coordination with University of Minnesota Press “Art after Nature” series, published the magnifident little book The Lichen Musuem. There are alot of books about lichens, but most of them are scientific or pop-science oriented. The Lichen Museum is different – it is philosophical, it is about social change, […]
Free Earth Astrology Readings for Survivors of Hurricane Helene and Mutual Aid Volunteers & Workers
The storms of exploitationism and expansionism have wreaked havoc in our planetary communities for millennia, and the winds of climate change, of intensifying hurricanes and extreme weather, are only the symptoms of socio-economic value systems that are out of balance, toppling over, and crushing the weakest and splintering the middle. We are all called to […]