Mulch Thief : Shaun Slifer

Little Rock, Arkansas, 2009: Bill Daniel, carefully rolling the tour van back and forth over a newly installed bronze coyote track from Between Dog & Wolf, mashing the whole thing down into the asphalt properly. I installed at least one of these pieces in each city we passed through during tour. 

The text is a full poem by Riegert, from the chapbook I Never Built an Atom Bomb.

Mother, two-color linoleum relief block print (2016)

Muhammad Ali portrait by Colin Matthes, b/w the bio, from Justseeds’ book Firebrands: Portraits from the Americas. Rest in power.

Research, frame diagram, detail of canvas sewing, and finished product: fabricating a reproduction 1910s-era canvas wall tent for an exhibit at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum (Matewan, WV). These are for a forthcoming article I wrote for the museum’s new newsletter, coming soon!

Artists (from top): Ricardo Levins Morales, Walter Crane, artist unknown 1997, unattributed image from Melbourne 1856.

(image source) artist unattributed, photo is of Sitting Bull (Lakota), more here.

Artists (from top): Hans Sebald Beham, unknown/unattributed, Frederick Goodall, Robert Walker MacBeth, Walter Crane.

(unattributed illustration found while researching Lily of the Valley re: May Day)

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Odd context: old engraving of Puritans hacking down the Maypole at Thomas Morton’s utopian Merry Mount colony found to be easily available as an iPhone case. File under “Dissonance Found During Google Image Search”

Harriet Tubman in the face of the US$20 bill? About damn time... Even though I wholeheartedly agree with the overall critique about memorializing people on money, I'm still a fan of @womenon20s All of this reminded me of a rubber stamp I made over decade ago (2005), which should perhaps be put back into action. #oldhickory #andrewjackson #harriettubman #womenon20s #heroes #realestate #genocide

I found this little image of a deer in a sketchbook, but I’ve no recollection of drawing it. After cutting it out on a tiny linoleum block, I started a second block that incorporated my long-time fascination with fraktur – iconic abstractions of flora and fauna (&c) which developed uniquely within early Pennsylvania German settlements as decor on intra-community documents.

Rewilding is a bold, non-anthropocentric approach to securing and enlarging any remaining undeveloped habitat in a radical effort to preserve ecological balance in the face of the Sixth (or Holocene) extinction. As a conservation strategy, rewilding primarily refers to three concepts working in tandem: Cores (restoration and preservation of remaining core wilderness areas), Corridors (restoring connectivity in a landscape carved up by highways and railroads via greenbelts and over- and under-passes) and Carnivores (revitalizing and reintroducing “keystone” carnivores in habitats where they have mostly been eliminated).

(on Justseeds now!)