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“Wasps, they have these beautiful markings on their face, it’s called their Clypeus. In a wasp colony, you have the foundress, the queen who starts the nest and the lessor ranking queens if you will. But they determine their hierarchy by the markings on their faces, and if you look at the markings on their faces, they are ink blots. They are bilaterally symmetrical black markings.” . 🖤Talk about coincidences🖤 . Ep 27 The Rural Pen with @a.rural.pen available @itunes @applepodcasts @anchor.fm . #naturalinkmaking #foraging #alchemist #wildinks #botanicalinks #craftandconserve #preserveandprotect #environmentaleducation #redefinerecreation #gutsnglorypodcast #podcast #community #connection #biopsychosocialspiritual #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B2zK974nfZh/?igshid=1mmhlevrn871

“I sort of like to think of ink blots in that way too. I am leaving this impression of something, but the actual thing that it represents is gone.” . I find myself in nature, nature finds itself in me. We are one and the same. . Ep 27 The Rural Pen with @a.rural.pen available @itunes @applepodcasts @anchor.fm . #naturalinkmaking #foraging #alchemist #wildinks #botanicalinks #craftandconserve #preserveandprotect #environmentaleducation #redefinerecreation #gutsnglorypodcast #podcast #community #connection #biopsychosocialspiritual #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B2_hilXHVVt/?igshid=1im09gw3v1e7g

“It’s helped me eliminate myself in a way.” . DM’s. Pings. Notifications. Emails. Tabs. Search engines. They’re all doors in a way, but what about the most important one? The one that leads outside and lets all else fall away. It may not be as easy as pressing Cmd + N new tab, it may take a little more courage, a lot of the time it’s taken for granted, but to stand beneath sky and atop soil…it gets you out, out of your head, into your body and all the lovely jubbly things that make up you. And that you make up a little piece of the whole🌎 . Ep 27 The Rural Pen with @a.rural.pen available @applepodcasts @itunes @anchor.fm . #naturalinkmaking #foraging #alchemist #wildinks #botanicalinks #craftandconserve #preserveandprotect #environmentaleducation #redefinerecreation #gutsnglorypodcast #podcast #community #connection #biopsychosocialspiritual #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hiB2eHB0A/?igshid=16iysp8ei1z3y

Today we're sitting down with @a.rural.pen, ink maker, alchemist, and garden hermit. . At the time of this call, he also worked as a park ranger in North Carolina (garden hermit check). And during the call, which was well over two hours long, he was wandering said park. Hey, who knew middle-of-nowhere-North Carolina had better connectivity than my own house *insert eye roll*. . He also kind of reminds me of a modern day Radagast from The Hobbit, but you know, not unhinged. From sunrise to sunset, between bush and bracken, Thomas expresses his values in ink blotching and across scroll, telling the tales of the environments that surround him. The inks themselves a token of an ecosystem governed under an infrastructure that only seeks to profit in its “ownership” of our natural world, and the ways with which he navigates his internal, as well as external, dialogue in finding his footing between community and nature. . Don't ever tell your kids that the likes of alchemists and witches don't exist because, if you look a little closer, they might just be your neighbor, your local baker, or in this case, a park ranger. . This is Ep 27 The Rural Pen with @a.rural.pen available @itunes @applepodcasts @anchor.fm . #naturalinkmaking #foraging #alchemist #wildinks #botanicalinks #craftandconserve #preserveandprotect #environmentaleducation #redefinerecreation #gutsnglorypodcast #podcast #community #connection #biopsychosocialspiritual #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B2W_Mx0IuUO/?igshid=33e5mvxigvp3

“The beauty of being alive” . Artist @martabott in her element using @torontoinkcompany ’s goldenrod and lampblack ink. . Catch the alchemy in the latest episode with Jason Logan, founder of @torontoinkcompany available at @itunes @applepodcasts @anchor.fm . #makeink #wildinks #industrialrecycling #botanicalinks #naturalinkmaking #plantdyes #slowmovement #herbs #naturalpigments #foraging #artfromnature #martaabbottart #gutsnglorypodcast #podcast #community #connection #biopsychosocialspiritual #community #connection #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/BysnRGDHGbD/?igshid=egzkfp7vtb56

Your whole self, up front and center, where it belongs. . Ep 22 “Palette” with @torontoinkcompany available at @itunes @applepodcasts @anchor.fm . #makeink #wildinks #industrialrecycling #botanicalinks #naturalinkmaking #plantdyes #slowmovement #herbs #naturalpigments #foraging #artfromnature #gutsnglorypodcast #podcast #community #connection #biopsychosocialspiritual #community #connection #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/ByrgrDYnukJ/?igshid=101seuc04debs

”Doing things that were based on other people’s needs.” . Nothing feels quite as good as coming home to yourself...*insert self-hug emoji here* . Ep 22 “Palette” with @torontoinkcompany available at @itunes @applepodcasts @anchor.fm . #makeink #wildinks #industrialrecycling #botanicalinks #naturalinkmaking #plantdyes #slowmovement #herbs #naturalpigments #foraging #artfromnature #gutsnglorypodcast #podcast #community #connection #biopsychosocialspiritual #community #connection #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/ByS5JQPHw1B/?igshid=1ezv58gz3yqlb