"As we extinguish a large portion of the planet's biological biodiversity, we will lose also a large portion of our world's beauty, complexity, intellectual interest, spiritual depth and ecological health...[the] future we're presently headed toward...is a future of soul withering biological loneliness."
Self-portrait 2026
This website deals with sadness and practice.
The paradox of sitting with current realities,
whilst constantly calling in a biodiverse, human-caring future,
like "kulning" to the universe.
Dedication
Made for water.
Made for trees.
Acknowledgement
I acknowledge colonialism (and whatever it seeded from and has sprouted into) as the death of life, as the death of the entire system we're all threaded into, and not poetically, literally.
I acknowledge the Gullibul people whose Country I live on/with, and the Githabul, Bundjalung, Yaegl, Gumbaynggirr and Dhunghutti peoples whose lands I move across regularly for work and play, and the Ngunnawal people whose land/Country is where my umbilical cord enters the soil, and all the people who originate from the land/waters of this continent and relate to it as kin - I acknowledge you as the wisest culture/s on earth and among the most decimated. I pay my respect to all those who have suffered by the acts and at the hands of the Settler and Immigrant cultures I am descended from - mine is a long dense history of humans locked in battle.
May our species evolve into living complexity - connection/ interdependence/ balance/ scale - and resume our collective responsibility as caretakers of this wondrous home.