Born of the biggest, brightest stars,A mighty dragon sails our world.She is several miles long, invisible.Her ears—cavernous mountains—Hear everything. All our whispers,Our weepings, and our wants. In her youth she is assaulted by strident repetitions: …
Tag: Creature Consciousness
The Vessel-Animal
How are we controlled through our concept of the animal?
I’ll Fly Away
A blocked screenwriter finds unlikely creative salvation when his wedding gift—a cage-bound parakeet—becomes his mysterious muse and collaborator in this surreal tale.
Earthscape
What can we know of an animal and their story? No nature documentary can truly show us what is in the heart of an animal.
“Kingfisher” and “Sacrifice” (Poems)
The amphibian drone of another future spring echoes back at me, the certainty of sun and thaw, a certainty of his wing’s blue flash, and a quick glimpse of his eye, alive and black and wild with potential.
“The Return” and “Meditations” (poems)
I have loved you since the beginning, / waiting all your life to love you more / and saying such, Death offers himself up— / his tarnished odor, silver gaze, immense.
Wax and Wane… Ebb and Flow
We say that the moon waxes and wanes on a monthly cycle and that the ocean tides ebb and flow two times each day, but nothing on the earth, whether geological or biological, is exempt from the forces of expansion and contraction, the waxing and waning of gravitational forces, and the constant ebbing and flowing of erosive water. This exhibition was inspired by the cycles that rule change in the natural world, and our perceptions of time and impermanence.
We Shall Fill Ourselves With Love, As With Prey
A drama of sex, death and vengeance unfolds between three Bearded Vultures (Gypaetus barbatus) and the parliament of ravens occupying the same isolated mountain valley.
Creature Consciousness is Resonant
The forest is maintained through a web of resonant relationships, to which Hawaiian ancestors imbued consciousness.