
“You could not be born at a better period than the present,
when we have lost everything.”
Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace
1947
<|> Within my sphere of influence, I find ways to transmute the terrors into something else, taking pleasure in every small creative choice.
<|> Wonder is an antidote – I must seek it out every day. It grows in weird and wild places.
<|> My process is necessarily open-ended to allow the freedom to scavenge along the edges where so much has been overlooked and discarded.
<|> Waste streams are full of potential that calls me into a more ecological relationship with the times and places I am part of.
<|> There is a strong current carrying us all towards becoming extremeophile – organisms that can live (or even thrive) in extremity.
<|> We have an evolutionary leap before us – I practice taking comfort in the unknown as a strategic adaptation.
<|> The prefiguration of liveable futures involves recuperating technologies from across Deep Time.
<|> These lifeways contain everything we need to survive – enough is as good as a feast.
<|> Preparing for the disastrous consequences constantly unfurling requires the courage to sense and orient towards the core of mattering.
“But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven
1971
