From Ancient Talisman to Modern Resistance I didn’t learn soapmaking from any woman in my family. No grandmother showed me how to coax lye into behaving or judge the precise moment when oils surrender their separateness and become something new. Yet the first time I stirred warm olive oil under winter candlelight, I felt a strange familiarity—as if stepping into a gesture older than my body, older than memory. There is a kitchen I have never lived in, but it lives in me. Whit

Field Notes from the Anthropocene, Vol. I The first essay in a five-year series tracing plant kinship, ecological crisis, and the futures...

From 90 million acres to 1%: A daughter's witness This essay traces the ecological and personal history of the longleaf pine ecosystem of...

In the long memory of Earth, few beings have been so entangled with human survival and story as trees. They are not background. They are...

On learning to listen again The feeling arrives first in my chest—a quickening. Then hope: somewhere, in some remote pocket of earth,...

Tracing the quiet rituals that dismantle inherited systems of self-erasure. June 1st 2025 Now that school is out, I’ve been...

What happens when both rivers and mothers are dammed Water has been here longer than we have. Longer than maps, longer than war, longer...

I plant things as a way of staying human. Not the flattened kind that moves through life by swiping and scrolling and swallowing whatever...

A Meditation on Deep Time, Matrilineal Inheritance, and the Entropocene

Begin again. Create again. Mother through collapse. For the past seven years, I’ve been in recovery. Not from a single trauma, but from a...

A reflection on years of painting interiors.

Blair Butterfield There is a reason people come to Florida; the water. The Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, the mashy wetland of the...

I’m standing about shin-deep in a field of freshly “bush hogged” Burma weed or Neyraudia reynaudiana. The sky is a surreal and vast blue....

Originally published in the Spring 2016 issue 35 of Antennae Journal for Nature in Visual Culture Amongst the agricultural area of South...

Volcanoes and Razorblade Walls as Warp and Weft in EL Salvador November 2017 Driving, gazing out the window, 12 foot walls pass by more...