I am currently interested in studying the metabolics of inhabitation. A bird’s nest and a real estate subdivision hold similar qualities: they contain lives ongoing within them, but with deeply different local and global effects. Human life is lived in shapes and embedded in systems that can blend with or deny relations with more than human worlds. Whatever the rhetoric, all systems are in relation to one another through the membranes of earth. I hold curiosity about the results of inhabitation, both human and more-than. Within the painful destruction and scary material effects of industrial development and climate change, there are opportunities to rethink the downstream effects of our habits, and to dream and make new futures that sing a life I want to live. For me, the point is to build the tools for sensitizing that help us create and maintain dynamic reciprocal relations with the living world. These tools connect, web, and relate through social and material forms such as community facilitation, collaborative research, photography, writing, sculpture, video, and installation.
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