Over-education and semi-feral, I’m a seeker of unknown places. I was trained as a scientist but see like an artist.
Wild literacy is a practice I've honed over three decades chasing rivers, mountains, deserts, and oceans across five continents. Wonderful things happen when you slow down and just notice—the rocks tell stories of ancient inland seas, the forests offer lessons in cooperation and reciprocity, and your body just plain (in the parlance of Timothy Leary) turns on, tunes in, and maybe even drops out.
To me, it's a practice, an act of prayer.
And it turns out, the kinds of patterns you discern in nature are applicable everywhere, in everything. They apply to your creative work, your relationships, the life you're building, the world you're navigating.
Through weekly essays at unTamed Science, Wild Painting, and place-based work, I share this practice from whichever far-flung place I find myself. My work follows curiosity wherever it leads—into science and landscape, the personal and political. The common question? What is this place, this moment, this system actually telling us?
