what I pay attention to:

• the bio-geochemical cycles (water, nitrogen, phosphorous) that animate ecosystems and human experience
• false dichotomies ( e.g. art / science, anthropology / ecology, materialist / spiritualist)
• my neighbours, including a wide range of mammalian, avian, botanical, bacterial and fungal species
• the anticipation I feel when I lift up a rock to witness a soil world
• in-between states: interstitial, liminal, littoral
• microbial communication
• taking care of my body as a mother and precarious scholar-artist in the midst of late stage capitalism

how I pay attention:

• poetry and songwriting
• autoethnography
• soil testing
• botanical pigment making
• guild level microbiome analysis (not genetic sequencing)
• spacial and temporal transects
• emergent, and improvisational methodologies
• surrealist oracle games
• calendar making
• singing to and with groups
• decolonial research methodologies