The name of this site has a story. Read it here.
This site represents my exploration of the relationships between humans and the natural world. It is also an exploration of the idea that somehow nature is not here but out there, someplace we go for solitude and renewal or avoid for fear of the wild, the untamed, the unknown. This separation feeds a false narrative - that when we harm ecosystems we are not also harming ourselves - because we are. This site is reflective of my experiences from both sides of that boundary, real or imagined. As I continually muse, venture, and seek spheres to connect, this site may become other than I originally intend. It is a lesson I am constantly learning and relearning - that I am, and always will be, becoming.
I spent weeks traveling and trekking in Patagonia. Weeks more starting an organic farm with two strangers in the arid and lonely Argentine pampas. Something about this painting on the side of a building in Ushuaia made me stop and stare for minutes. It did not escape my notice that this mural was marred as far and high as people could reach. A metaphor for our species existence on planet earth perhaps. But, it was the beauty of the whole that captured me; it was the absence of the duality that holds me still.