excited to teach a new course at Princeton this fall. we really need all the tools for living in this world, and i hope this course will offer at least a few:

last week, i held a workshop at Rutgers on non-numerical weather recording. i love numbers--and need them--but we need some other ways, too, and so we tried some cyanotype recording of the rain.

left: 45 minutes of rain on plexiglass; right: 10 minutes of rain on plexiglass coated w/ soil.

we've expanded our dye collection. here are some of the colors we are working with lately. the thing that we are really thinking on is how we can learn different laws of change and transformation from plants, and especially how they teach us about change in situations of duress and stasis:

super excited for this event at Rutgers-Camden tomorrow. join us if you're around ⛅

in class today, we cooked down dockroot, alkanet, and blackberry vine, which produced a variety of golden, brown, and somewhat redish dyes.

i'm teaching a class on hues in poems and plants this semester. yesterday, we experimented with a variety of purples/blues alongside H.D.'s poem about sea-violets.

yesterday we learned about riso and silkscreen in one of my #environmentalhumanities classes. it was really fun!

hello! still finding my way on here. i had not felt compelled to say much of anything on <thesitethatshallnotbenamed> over the last few years. the influx of things there tended to compel me into a quietness. that’s been my vibe since early 2020–just lots of listening and witnessing.