Ecologists know that forests don’t appear all at once.

When a previously forested landscape has been stripped bare by a glacier, it doesn’t leap directly back into mature woodland once the glacier retreats. The conditions simply aren’t there for that. The soil is poor. The climate at ground level is too harsh. The rich web of relationships that actually constitutes a forest has been broken apart.

Instead, the process begins with pioneer species…

My work is an attempt to live into and try to articulate viable pathways into a post-extractive culture.

Ultimately, I’m interested in contributing to the emergence of the conditions in which life on Earth can once again start to flourish after this long period of industrialised assault.

By this I mean not only ecological flourishing, but the flourishing of human culture — of our innate capacity to live well and happily together and as participants in the wider community of life.