The WEAD Board and I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Connie Tell and Donna Brookman for their dedication, intellect and tenacity so essential in creating Magazine Issue 14. Late spring 2023 I had a health emergency that put magazine production on hold....
On My Mind
In Her Own Words
EDITOR'S NOTE: This essay is a collage of collected writings by the artist for her website and blog. I. BEGINNINGS MY PERFORMANCES AND INSTALLATIONS are prayers. My passion is the Earth, and my identity belongs to Spirit. The word heartist reflects the...
Divining Chaos
From page 22 of Divining Chaos, the Autobiography of an Idea Chapter: 1 A Path The consequence of the pandemic for almost everyone was profound and chaotic dislocation from most space and time tethers. If arguments advanced by ecofeminists such as the historian...
Feminist Activist Painting
I. WHICH FEMINISM IN ART AND FEMINISM, Peggy Phelan defines feminism as the conviction that gender has been, and continues to be, a fundamental category for the organisation of culture, the pattern of that organisation favouring men over women (1). In a talk held at...
Cultural Commentary Project
WHAT TRIGGERED YOU? A new conspiracy by Qanon posted on the Epoch Times Instagram? Perhaps Trump's body-shaming of a reporter on Twitter? How did you react? Like. Share. Comment. Forward. The perfect storm of hyper-targeted marketing, deep learning, and...
Feminism and Socialism
I. INTRODUCTION WHEN I STARTED WORKING ON MY research on gender performances in Bulgarian socialist film in 2008, the description of the socialist period in local and international media was generalized as a time of darkness and political oppression. Although useful...
What Can We Do Now?
Editor's note: At my urging, Betsy Damon kindly sent us a quick but urgent 'stream of thought' essay on where we are now, and where might we go. Here's her opinion. WE LIVE IN CHALLENGING TIMES. Overwhelmed by political and ecological crises, it's...
Farewell To A Forest Place
I. HISTORY OF PROPERTY THIS IS A LOVE STORY that began 33 years ago, when my husband and I purchased ten tree-covered acres in northeast Pennsylvania. It was a small section of a large forest, with a stream, springs, and beautiful slate rock formations, a hidden...
The Fall and Rise of Community
INTRODUCTION RECORDED HISTORY IS TYPICALLY charted through the deeds of great individuals. Complex narratives of conquests, revolutions, discoveries, and accomplishments are encapsulated in the biographies of such prominent personages as Attila the Hun, Alexander the...
The Ecology Of Reverence
I. PREAMBLE: THREE WARNING SIGNS AND A TRASH WHIRLPOOL II. OVERBURDENED WATERS There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse. (The...
Anti-Nuke EcoArt
I. MINDSHIFT POST-FUKUSHIMA THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER HAS caused me some mindshifts. Especially about what works and what doesn't when attempts are made to engage art with activism. And if (or when) encouraging activism through art, to shut down nuclear power...
Ruptures In Technoculture
INTRODUCTION IN FEBRUARY OF 2010, AN ARTICLE APPEARED IN WIRED Magazine on the further militarization of bioengineering. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) included an item in its 2011 budget for the creation of a militarized...
India: Beauty of Water
I. A BEGINNING IN KERALA IT IS OCTOBER 2008 AND I AM THE SOLE woman in a group of ten accomplished artists and art students in the backwaters of Kerala in the south of India. I do not speak the Malayalam language. Everyone knows English, yet we...
Journeys and Visions
I. WATER IS MY TEACHER ALL ECOLOGIES ARE RELATIONAL. ALL LIFE FUNCTIONS use basically the same elements -- air, water, earth, and energy in many forms. Our connective tissue is so complex that we understand only a fraction of it, but in contradiction to...
Feminist Ideas Then & Now…
Feminist ideas then & now are linked/changed expanded/contracted? How things have changed in ecoart since that panel in 1999....or what internet and other extended forms of communication since then have changed the field. In 1999, at the dawn of the conservative...