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Claire Bridge
@clairebridge.bsky.social
Artist, poet, writer
• Queer ecologies, hybridity, myth, fluid materialities, multi-species & cross-cultural storytelling
• Ceramics, painting, installation
• Auslan / English
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Delight is a form of transformative resistance
“… those moments when, immersed in nature, we find ourselves “dissolved into something complete and great”
January 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Happy Year of the Snake 🐍

I’ve been dreaming of snakes recently. Repeated dreams that continue the plot line from night to night. The strangest one was only 2 nights ago, dreaming of snakes and then saying in the dream to my friend that I’d been dreaming of snakes. Consciously dreaming the dream.
January 29, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The binary never existed
The split-gill mushroom, Schizophyllum commune, has 23,000 sexes (that we know of), all of which can mate with any other sex. Talk about breaking the binary!
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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The Serviceberry

a gift

“In Potawatomi, it is called Bozakmin, which is a superlative: the best of the berries”

emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se...

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#reciprocity #ecology
#abundance
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
emergencemagazine.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Surface manifestations of juicy matter are momentary eruptions of a much larger interconnected organism, mercurially exchanging messages between sky beings and chthonic ones.

Claire Bridge, we are multitudes, 2023, glazed stoneware, stainless-steel, 63 x 60.5 x 177cm

📸 S Strong
#sculpture
January 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM