Time Telling by Lichen | Gouache and Ink on Paper | 9 x 6 inches | 2023
i climb into their branches
use my mouth
to wet a patch of lichen
soft gray-green
unfurling
spit bubbles stretching
and merging as tiny fingers
extend
In Huchiun, the Indigenous Lisjan Ohlone lived symbiotically with their ecology. However, less than 260 years later, European colonization, industrialization, and subsequent abandonment have decimated what is now known as West Oakland, leaving the land and its people in urgent need of regeneration.
In Greek mythology, Orpheus is a bard known for enchanting plants and animals with his music. This drawing depicts him surrounded by nonhuman beings of the Pacific Northwest, many of which the artist has cultivated specific relationships with.
West Oakland, California, is often portrayed negatively in mainstream American media. But when I point my camera at the community’s people, I capture images of resilience, strength, and beauty. Like a formerly dilapidated shack transformed into an artistic home.
In this four-part interview, Satish Kumar shares his views on peace, our relationship with nature, and what led him to found Schumacher College in 1991. Among those who inspire him are Vinoba Bhave, Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, and E.F. Schumacher.
i climb into their branches
use my mouth
to wet a patch of lichen
soft gray-green
unfurling
spit bubbles stretching
and merging as tiny fingers
extend
Massive deforestation in central India is leading to ecological disaster, with desertification, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, all aggravated by climate change. We are using Indigenous knowledge and state-of-the-art scientific approaches to help communities regenerate forests and restore livelihoods.
The LivingConfluence is an ecoweb-rooted knowledge-technology-practice (ecoliving) system that presents an innovative transitional and regenerative alternative to the extractivist ELGE system. The LivingConfluence is an income-generating, resource-sharing, co-working, co-learning ELGE entity involving ecoweb-rooted community households, nonprofit organizations, and outside investors.
Ecoself is a reimagined Indigenous concept, the understanding and expression of which restores our wellbeing. It is who we are in the context of our own natures, abilities, and experiences, our genetics, our ancestral ecological webs (ecowebs), and our adopted ecowebs.
This painting instead depicts the feeling of doom regarding what an otherwise peaceful scene on earth might look like if we continue to allow climate change to progress at its current pace.
West Oakland, California, is often portrayed negatively in mainstream American media. But when I point my camera at the community’s people, I capture images of resilience, strength, and beauty. Like a formerly dilapidated shack transformed into an artistic home.
The LivingConfluence is an ecoweb-rooted knowledge-technology-practice (ecoliving) system that presents an innovative transitional and regenerative alternative to the extractivist ELGE system. The LivingConfluence is an income-generating, resource-sharing, co-working, co-learning ELGE entity involving ecoweb-rooted community households, nonprofit organizations, and outside investors.
Massive deforestation in central India is leading to ecological disaster, with desertification, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, all aggravated by climate change. We are using Indigenous knowledge and state-of-the-art scientific approaches to help communities regenerate forests and restore livelihoods.
i climb into their branches
use my mouth
to wet a patch of lichen
soft gray-green
unfurling
spit bubbles stretching
and merging as tiny fingers
extend