Daria Koltsova is an ukrainian artist and her practice emerges from listening to the histories that imperial, colonial regimes have tried to erase—narratives, memories, and stories that carry across generations. Her work inhabits “the tension between local experience and global frameworks, betwe
Flowers' symbolism, metaphors and meaning-making. Since the time before time. flowers have reached the inner world of the human spirit, reoccurring in the spiritual and symbolic realms. This week Priyanka Singh Parihar traces the symbolism of flowers across three continents, where origin stories b
Since 2010, Genomic Gastronomy has developed a food analysis based on inquiry, experimentation, and the shared table. From crafting interdisciplinary dialogues about the future of Egyptian foodscapes to documenting the terroir of wheatfields burnt by California wildfires, the artists at Genomic Gast
“I have told you about death so that you will love every sunray and look at every blossom.” So many of us live disconnected and dissatisfied, alienated from the root of what it means to be alive. We were never meant to live with armor up, fending off anything that might cut through these fragil
From flowers has blossomed the beginning of humankind In this poetic essay @priyanka.parihar16 shares meditations on flowers and how their origins are tied to the origins of humankind. With the emergence of flowers, the relationship between plants and insects shifted in many cases toward mutualism.
Right now, in front of me, there is a pepper tree that is 60 years old. Its leaves dance in the wind and often reach the window of my studio where I write, almost like a nudge to say, “Hey, I’m here.” Since last week a beige and brown dog has been coming from […]
Armed conflict reshapes the living systems that hold us together. Peace is not only about the absence of war, it is about the presence of a liveable planet. Conflicts intensify the climate crisis through increased military infrastructures, fossil fuel dependencies, and environmental destruction dur
Embracing Radical Intimacy in Environmental Activism Humans’ relationship with the Earth and with non-human life—and, in fact, with each other—is fraught with exploitation on the basis of difference. But do the differences justify our disconnect? When and how is it important to acknowledge di