Redrawn 8/2022

 

Re-Reading a Forested Landscape

 

  Reading a Landscape sometimes involves going back to before the times of appropriation and colonization, before the introduction of the rat and the pig, and everything that followed. Reading a Landscape sometimes involves as much unlearning as it does learning, as myths and misconceptions fall away like autumn leaves that reveal a big stone snake along an ancient Indian road…

Unlearning a Zig Zag Row of Stones:

The carefully constructed pre-contact zigzag stone row at the bottom of layers and layers of the post-contact field clearing stones tossed from the former field above...

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