Artists – Planted

Category: Artists

Artist Alicja Kwade investigates the boundaries between the natural and the constructed, inviting viewers to reconsider their place within vast systems of time, matter, and ultimately meaning. Working with materials like stone, metal, and glass, her practice is a collaboration with the earth itself. She talks to Anna Borrie about her sculptures that challenge our human assumptions about permanence, value, and truth. Digging into how her work exposes the quiet absurdities and inherited beliefs that shape our understanding of the universe. She urges us to see with greater humility and curiosity and to have reverence for the interconnectedness of all beings. This interview is published by Planted Journal, a non-profit publication dedicated to bridging the gap between humans and nature for personal and planetary well-being.

Jan 09^th

The Weight and Wonder of Materials: Reverence, Reality, and the Constructed World | Alicja Kwade

Dec 03^rd

Uprooted: Preserving Indigenous Farming Through Art | Umesh S.

Nov 11^th

Fertile Dreams: Exploring Land, Transformation and Ritual in the Middle East

Sep 25^th

Survival as Resistance: Carrying Knowledge Forward | Demian DinéYazhi

Sep 10^th

Organic Art: Blurring the Boundaries Between Identity and Nature | Olana Light

"I investigate how technology can simultaneously poison and remedy." Drawing from Minahasan cosmology, artist Natasha Tontey blends ritual, myth, and speculative fiction to explore identity, memory, and multispecies kinship, using nonlinear storytelling and sensory media to collapse time and reanimate ancestral knowledge. She talks to our Associate Editor, Anna Borrie, about how her work functions as a form of pilgrimage and resistance, offering Indigenous worldviews as critical tools for reimagining ecological futures and challenging narratives.

Jun 10^th

Ancestral Circuits: Myth, Memory, and the Hybrid World | Natasha Tontey

May 14^th

Form and Friction: Acts of Resistance and Reverence | Saj Issa

"Rivers are just as alive as you and me. They have a body called the catchment, the mouth and the delta; cells of water molecules; organs of wetlands and riparian zones; and like us, a circulatory system. We're inseparable from the waters of the world. We rely on these living bodies for our very survival." Environmental artist, author, and activist Basia Irland bridges the intersection of art, ecology, and community engagement through her exploration of the fragility and resilience of waterways. Grounded in a lifelong connection to rivers, she joins Anna Borrie to explore the layered voices and hidden narratives flowing within these bodies of water. They explore how rivers carry memory, culture, and change, and how listening to them can reshape the way we understand our place in the world. Drawing on storytelling, science, and traditional ecological knowledge, Irland reminds us that rivers are not silent—they are vital, vocal, and vulnerable. She invites us to see rivers not as passive landscapes, but as sentient beings with histories, needs, and wisdom of their own

Apr 24^th

A River’s Heartbeat: Understanding the Stories Told by Flowing Waters | Basia Irland

Apr 16^th

Feminine Forces and Nature’s Beauty: The Art of Reconnection | Jeanne K Simmons