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 […]
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, […]
Lichen Exploration Workshops
Lichenologist Laura Boggess and I have been exploring new ways of introducing people to the world of lichens – ways that weave together both the scientific and the poetic: lichen taxonomy and social change, lichen ecology and being human in these times.
“Emergence” and my Deep Ecology art practice
Last autumn, I spent two weeks at the United Plant Savers Goldenseal Sanctuary in Ohio as a Deep Ecology Artist in Residence. United Plant Savers (UPS) is an organization with an unusually forward thinking approach to conservation of native medicinal plants. Unlike most conservation projects that aim to limit human activity, UPS invites human activity […]
Another look at Poison Ivy: Mother Rhus
Let’s write stories for our ancestors. About healing. Hope, Futures of resilience.…Let’s write stories for the future generations. Stories that can help us travel to futures that we’d like to inhabit.……But first, I need to heal. Maybe you do too. Today, an article I wrote on healing intergenerational trauma was published in a plant dialogues […]
Deep Ecology of Lichens – An upcoming Artists Fellowship
Exciting news! The United Plants Savers awarded me a Deep Ecology Artists Fellowship. As one of their 2022 recipients, I’ll be staying at the United Plant Savers Sanctuary to explore the deep ecology of lichens. What is Deep Ecology? There are lots of different definitions, all connected at a central core: that the earth is […]