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Weaving rain shelters: Turning with the rhythm of rain ants in Sarayaku

Captives

Fox River Wanderer (Autumn, Winter)

Summer Tanager: An abstract painting using the colors found on the bird painted on a semi-translucent panel. Bright orange and yellows appear to move on the panel as the viewer moves.

The Nature of Time: One Year of Bird Migration

Waterford Road view. Medium: Ink, earth pigment, glair. Landscape in ochre clay pigment and black ink washes. Strong horizontal and diagonal lines, and contrast between shades articulate a landscape of hills and trees looking out to the ocean.

Earth.ink; en plein air painting and earth pigments on the Agulhas Plain

Learning from the Lowly Lichen about Being a Better Human

A black and white print of leaves and stems. Four small leaves fill the upper left corner and an acorn is printed in the center, to the right of the small leaves. On the right corner there are three leaves that are outlined. Other leaves cover the lower part of the page and are darkened with ink.

The Imaginary of Renewal: A Garden Project in France, Part Two

Vivid sunset on the horizon, sun dipping behind small range of mountains, sun rays reflecting off of the shallow lake water which is punctuated by clumps of earth.

Vale, Great Salt Lake : In Solidarity with a Sovereign

Light, near white, Hexagonal columnar basalt formations along Reynisfjara black sand beach in Vik í Myrdal Iceland.

Our Shared Language Is Silence

Eating and Metamorphosis

A surface covered in leaves, some are green, some are brown and dried, some have multiple leaves from one stem, others are a single leaf. All the leaves have been flattened and laid out together like a mosaic onto a light blue surface.

The Imaginary of Renewal: A Garden Project in France, Part One

The Sturgeon’s Dream: A Libretto, Part Two

The Sturgeon’s Dream: A Libretto, Part One

Lost in the Glare

Life in the Cosmos: Micro and Macro

The Part of the Universe that Looks at Itself

Three different images of an orange moon with a black background during a lunar eclipse on May 15 to 16, 2022. Image times range from 11:20 PM to just after midnight. Accompanying text on the image include the following: "Gray tree frogs croak over the neighbor’s swimming pool, filling the night with high-pitched pleas for love. I lean back in the Adirondack chair I’ve set up in the front yard, watching the lunar eclipse. By 11:20 p.m., it looks like a big, naked eyeball, lens white, staring south. (What would a moon be looking for?) Totality at 11:30 p.m. is no disappointment: blood moon is what they call it, but it’s more like a blood orange—the fruit, that is. In the hour that follows, that rusty-red orb glows orangier on the left, then at the bottom gets darker, and finally when a crescent moon emerges bright white, it’s well after midnight and I’m so ready for bed."

Sky Sketches

Image of Mars taken by Curiosity Rover. Image credits: NASA.

The Overview Effect, as Seen from Earth

Spook Asem

Sacred and Sacrilege: Weaving Resilience and Exploitation through Forest Assemblages

Leathery Little Saints

A Glossary of the Unthinkable

Bone-Stones: Relics of Our Wreckage

A triptych of abstract illustrations of bats hanging upside down. Colors include shades of brown and orange.

Upside Down People: Bats and Autism

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