Land Ethic
Art Expo
Art & Fashion from the grasslands
The exhibit title is LAND ETHIC, stemming from the writings of Aldo Leopold, a naturalist in early 20th century America. Using materials from the local landscape to express and grapple with our relationships to this place, the exhibit hopes to establish more awareness around materials sourcing and its connection to the land we inhabit, the connection of clothes and art to this land we rely upon. With art, and with material culture, we intend to bring a wider audience into the conversation about land use and our collective reliance on the land and its health. We live in a grassland, we live in an oak woodland, we live in fire country. These are artworks that look to the past, while envisioning the future. In this relationship to place, we look to reconnect, restore, resituate, and re-home ourselves based on natural history, yet in the face of the unknown, a future of change, where the climate will be different than what was known in the past.
–Marie Hoff, Full Circle Wool
Inspiration and practice
"Transhumant systems are part of my lineage. My peoples were nomadic, herders. They worked in intimate relationship with the land. Because of the transatlantic slave trade this knowledge was severed from me (among other things, turtle island is a melting pot). I would love to be in understanding and relation with those knowledgeable of this form of practice and pay homage to these experiences that flow through my being." –Grace Harris
“Although I love sheep, wool and the fiber arts associated with them, the flock is primarily a land management tool. But I believe a key factor of Indigenous Management that is missing now are the vast numbers of herbivores--from elk to rabbits--that interacted with vegetation and fire. Knowledgeable and careful management of domestic animals could help restore the balance.” --Rhoby Cook
"In Bolinas, where I live, goats and sheep are used to graze to reduce the fuel load to reduce fires, yet these same goats and sheep provide me with the raw material to create clothing, footwear and shelter. I would like to create a piece that reflects how versatile, adaptable and immensely useful these animals are and how they have served humankind in these many ways for thousands of years." -Marlie de Swart
"This practice has made me feel much more connected to the land, having seen firsthand the benefits of the animals grazing high and low. Since researching indigenous people's stewardship of the land in California, and having an experience of sheep grazing our own land, I am seeing the world through a new or arguably old pair of lenses." --Jaye Alison Moscariello
"Much of my work is about connection--- connection to ourselves, to nature, to each other. I live in a place where my connection to nature is beyond the spiritual, the emotional--- it is also very physical. I want to go beyond my connection to the land and connect with its people as well, fostering reciprocity in this place." --Katherine Rutter
“The connections we have to the animals we raise and the land we and they both live on and from are some of the oldest and most important practices we have.” -- Laurin C. Guthrie
"My work collects traces of interactions between people, fabric and food. This work will use fabric to trace the movement of a flock, documenting the conversation of Transhumance festival." --Sierra Elizabeth Reading
“My hope is to share the shapes and harmonies that I see in nature. The way I see the land blending ecosystems is so similar to spinning yarn with the added complexity of weaving in biodiversity.” –Darci Bidziil
"Transhumant systems are part of my lineage. My peoples were nomadic, herders. They worked in intimate relationship with the land. Because of the transatlantic slave trade this knowledge was severed from me (among other things, turtle island is a melting pot). I would love to be in understanding and relation with those knowledgeable of this form of practice and pay homage to these experiences that flow through my being." –Grace Harris
“Although I love sheep, wool and the fiber arts associated with them, the flock is primarily a land management tool. But I believe a key factor of Indigenous Management that is missing now are the vast numbers of herbivores--from elk to rabbits--that interacted with vegetation and fire. Knowledgeable and careful management of domestic animals could help restore the balance.” --Rhoby Cook
"In Bolinas, where I live, goats and sheep are used to graze to reduce the fuel load to reduce fires, yet these same goats and sheep provide me with the raw material to create clothing, footwear and shelter. I would like to create a piece that reflects how versatile, adaptable and immensely useful these animals are and how they have served humankind in these many ways for thousands of years." -Marlie de Swart
"This practice has made me feel much more connected to the land, having seen firsthand the benefits of the animals grazing high and low. Since researching indigenous people's stewardship of the land in California, and having an experience of sheep grazing our own land, I am seeing the world through a new or arguably old pair of lenses." --Jaye Alison Moscariello
"Much of my work is about connection--- connection to ourselves, to nature, to each other. I live in a place where my connection to nature is beyond the spiritual, the emotional--- it is also very physical. I want to go beyond my connection to the land and connect with its people as well, fostering reciprocity in this place." --Katherine Rutter
“The connections we have to the animals we raise and the land we and they both live on and from are some of the oldest and most important practices we have.” -- Laurin C. Guthrie
"My work collects traces of interactions between people, fabric and food. This work will use fabric to trace the movement of a flock, documenting the conversation of Transhumance festival." --Sierra Elizabeth Reading
“My hope is to share the shapes and harmonies that I see in nature. The way I see the land blending ecosystems is so similar to spinning yarn with the added complexity of weaving in biodiversity.” –Darci Bidziil
List of Artists and mediums
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BUREAU OF LINGUISTICal REALITY
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Mobile Field Office will be hosting office hours during the Transhumance festival to work with you to identify the gaps in our language where we are individually and collectively at a loss for words to describe the changing world around us.
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a public participatory artwork by Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott focused on creating new language as an innovative way to better understand our rapidly changing world due to manmade climate change and other Anthropocenic events. The vision of the artwork is to co-create new words with the public to express what people are feeling and experiencing as our world changes as climate change accelerates. We use these new words to facilitate conversations about the greater experiences these words are seeking to express with the view to facilitate a greater cultural shift around climate change.