I’m thrilled to have a short essay included in Eight Fires, Issue 24 of Dark Mountain. This book literally grew, like a plant, from a series of workshops with artists and thinkers around the world over a year. Though separated in geography, we convened online to explore a mutual practice for creativity and living, based on the seasonal eight points of the solar year. We held fires and made art and explored how ritual can connect us across time and space to each other and all our ancestors. This is a book about forging a way forward – and deepening roots – in a grievously chaotic time.
Every new issue of Dark Mountain marks a reason to celebrate: these gorgeous books gather writing that emerges from soil, root and feather. They are illustrated and interspersed with artwork that likewise reaches backwards and forwards, motivated by devotion to the living world and a vibrant future for all.