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 ⛅

one of the more surprising developments when we were making the dye was how some of the roots really wanted the water, rather than really wanting to release pigment (which is what we thought would happen when heated). here's the alkanet:

it was rewarding, and an extremely fragrant experience. here's the wheel of color we have so far. all plant-based. the lighter blackberry is the vine, and the darker is the berry.

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!

on research and visioning, i am the author of two books: