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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The need to exert control and dominance over the land, is inherited from a colonial approach of dividing the roles of who works the land, who protects the land and who gets to enjoy the land.

Anna Borrie

In recent years, prompted by climate change, I have expanded my focus from carcasses to severed trees, transposing my interest in the physical and metaphorical wound to the natural landscape. I see these severed tree limbs as wounds on the body of the Earth. They are bloodless for the most part, but they too carry the imprint of a man-made, mechanical cut.

Tamara Kostianovsky

Borders are constructs, but they leave real marks—on land, on people, on memory. My work seeks to engage with these tensions, acknowledging the constraints while also imagining possibilities for permeability and reconnection.

Tania Candiani

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For a man, it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

I like to imagine soil as a membrane. A skin-like veil between the life that flourishes on the surface and the microscopic bustle of subterranean living.

Victoria Pham

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nature can be finding a wildflower growing through a crack in concrete pavement.

Anne Borrie

We are of the earth, made of the same stuff; there is no other, no division between us and 'lower' or 'higher' forms of being.

Wilhelm Reich
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