“Emergence” and my Deep Ecology art practice
“The Galaxy Beneath our Feet” – Oil on Birch Board, 2022 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 […]
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 […]
Notes on a sabbatical from lichenology
For anyone who has visited my site before, you’ve probably noticed a big change. I’ve revamped it to reflect a bit of what I’ve been learning and exploring these past 2 years: that lichenology is not just a practice of taxonomy and observation of the outer world, but is also an exploration of the inner world, a practice in creating symbioses with our mind, and body, and emotions and more than human world, which can radically shift how we engage with the outer world.
Trip Report: White Mountains or Bust! (California /Nevada, USA) Day 5
Our last day. In the morning there are a few brief sprinkles, and dark clouds everywhere. I hear two thunderclaps, and Marvin is shaking with nerves. We reluctantly decide to bail on the route.
Trip Report: White Mountains or Bust! (California /Nevada, USA) Day 4
Longest day, distance-wise. Wander up, following creek part of the way. Find some Claytonia. Top off our water at a snow pack near the top of the slope. It is late enough that we can divert enough flow to fill our bottles relatively quickly.
