Recipes for a Warmer World

Recipes for a Warmer World: Cooking up Plants of the Futurescape as Colors, Scents, and Foods invites multi-sensory appreciation for plants that will likely thrive in a future landscape. It includes tested recipes for extracting color from seven plant species, along with secondary recipes for either scent or taste. Four essays frame this DIY making initiative—an essay on ethnobotany, one on the chemistry of color, another on the colonization of pokeweed, and a speculative hike along the Appalachian Trail.

Risograph and offset printed
146 pages, 6.5”x9”
Edition of 100
April, 2024

Twisties

A risograph collage with accompanying prose that seeks to complicate our understanding of Japanese Knotweed and the terminology (invasive, non-native) that “others” not only the species, but also the cultures and places from which it originates.

Collage and prose risograph-printed on Hemptone paper by French Paper Co.
Edition of 50
8.5x14”
Double-sided

Nectar

A zine celebrating Japanese Knotweed—it’s beauty, evils, and benefits—accompanied by an 11x17” print of the plant.

My Mother’s Mother’s Mother

Small edition print of Edwin Torres’ poem “My Mother’s Mother’s Mother” performed at Soon is Now in 2021. Torres is a bilingual, New York-based poet—a self-proclaimed “lingualisualist” whose work is “rooted in the languages of sight and sound.”

Plant One on Me

An interactive zine that asks participants to respond to various prompts about their relationship with a specific plant in their community. Responses were part of a public exhibition that explores the theme of plants, place and belonging.

Tools for Excavating Virgin Snow

An ecological and social field guide to the New Jersey Pine Barrens, accompanied by documentation of a durational action tracing the perimeter of an aerial bomb military training site located within an ecologically rare dwarf pine plain.

Intergalactic Navel Gazing

Lyrical essay and collage archiving an encounter with the Umbilicaria mammulata lichen. This work engages a symbiotic species to elaborate on the concept of interspecies dependency.

Performing Vowels in the Note of Blue Zine

Performing vowels in the note of blue is a score for non discursive communication with(in) a grove of red pines somewhere in the Catskills. Risograph-printed broadsheet acts as a choreographic score and was provided as a takeaway for viewers during the exhibit.

I Talk to the Wind

A broadsheet that integrates ecologist Richard Karban’s research on airborne communication in sagebrush plants with Marianne von Willemer’s love poem to Goethe.