every habitat holds magic

In offering to place the beings there begin to reveal their medicine to us. Personalities and relationships unfold in patterns of color and light. Sitting on the Earth, human remembers being animal and the grounding brings reverence.

Layers of pigment transmit portals of Earth medicine and lessons in remediation after the destruction of colonialism. Learning from watershed stories and bloodlines reminds us how to be an ecosystem.

habitat holds seasons and stories put into pigment for an ecopoetics of place.

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In honor of Lawû, on every full moon I transmit images and words from twenty-two years of painting room and habitat portraits.

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