Winter’s Muted Garden
What does a garden become in winter? Émilie Gervais explores winter’s sensory and narrative landscape through a community garden’s fence.
Tagged: Ideas of Nature
The Colonial Roots of Catholic Plants
Catholic churches in the U.S. are decorated with a shared, recurring cycle of select plants. Rebecca Laurent and Emily Burke dig into the historical and political roots of poinsettias and Easter lilies and what their floral glory tells us about nature, religion, and colonialism.
When Monster Snails Eat Wetlands
The Coca Cola-funded micro-wetland of the Green Water Nature Center was to be a straightforward, water purification project. And then came the apple snail. These small creatures, Qieyi Liu shows, complicated everything.
The Weedy Possibilities of Mother Mesquite
Erin Charpentier and Travis Neel consider the place of weeds in our world in their living, collaborative art installation of honey mesquite trees, The Mesquite Mile.
Vegetal Diaspora and the Restless Life of Plants
While following the wandering of nalca across continents, Jens Benöhr mediates on migration, belonging, and the porous borders between human and plant life in our restless, planetary garden.
The Queer Ecologies of the Tambass Wetlands
Richard Watts, Maureen Ryan, and Danny Hoffman wade through the queer ecology and relations that characterize the Tambass wetlands, shaped as they are by precarity, impermanence, and survivance.
Parrots at Play in the Arab Soundscape
Joseph Leidy deciphers the cacophany of parrot voices on Arab social media, from faithful recitations of the Quran to playful banter. The parrots speak to autonomy and play in multispecies companionships.
Ceguera Vegetal y ‘Viendo’ las Escalas Temporales de las Plantas
Katherine Cheung examina el concepto de ceguera hacia las plantas y las formas en que los seres humanos pueden comprender sus escalas temporales diferenciadas, sintonizándose finalmente con los ritmos vegetales.
El Asunto del Tiempo
Monika Szuba enfrenta el tiempo profundo a través del examen de la descomposición, entre lo que es real y lo que es sintético. En este contexto, escribe que la longue durée no es lo suficientemente larga para concebir el cambio antropogénico que se despliega a nuestro alrededor.
Rhizomatic Poetics for Our Plant Companions
How do we represent the complexity of plant companionship in a language marred by dualism? Jerald Lim uses twin cinema poetry.
