Fourteen Encounters,
Interviews for Making Kin with Soil, 2024Isn’t it about human agency?
The soils you already have
Bacteria that grow old together
We don’t need to name everything
Without Using Words
Above, some titles from a series of 14 transcripts of conversations with scientists and academics at the University of Exeter and the Eden Project, as part of my residency . Each transcript captures a dialogue between two people, documenting their process of getting to know one another through their intimate connections with soils.
Initially, recording these conversations was a way to fully immerse myself in listening and engaging without the distraction of note-taking. However, creating these zines has evolved into a research synthesis tool that helps to draw and imagine new connections across scales, time, species, and disciplines.