Reading room based on Jugend | Canon 55mm | On a walk in Orient Point State Park, there were unoccupied seats. Caution tape lining playgrounds. This seat in the forest was symbolic of the time we are in. I transposed a book I held [...]
Ysabella Luikart is a third year Environmental Chemistry major at SUNY ESF. These photographs were created for Anne Godfrey’s LSA 496 class, as part of a final project in which the class tackled current landscape issues and how the future might be impacted. The landscape issue behind this particular set of photos is the human [...]
Our art is focused on exploring the systems and institutions that dominate the popular narratives of nature. In other words, we look at what and who counts as natural and what doesn't. We want to re-examine the language and outlook used to characterize the natural in hopes of making a more fruitful and more just [...]
Allene Nichols lives in Dallas, Texas, where she teaches at Richland College and at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is an avid traveler and always travels with her camera. Her photos have appeared in Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga. Her poetry has appeared in many journals [...]
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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." R. Buckminster FullerMany years ago, I was fortunate to hear Mr. Fuller speak and was struck by his magical, intertwining and brilliant embrace of mechanics and nature. So too, Georgia O'Keefe struck a chord of nature interpretation with me over [...]
"You go back to the roots and then what comes out of that experience is shocking, it’s beautiful. And it rarely disappoints me if I approach things like that."
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Rebecca Cristante is an Atlanta based visual artist, writer, and scholar from Southwest Georgia. She is currently furthering her studies in Environmental Science at Georgia State University. Her poems and prose have appeared in journals such as Eyedrum Periodically, Burnt District, The Five Hundred, Constellations Journal, Mistake House Magazine, and the Remington [...]
