Tag: nature
Tomas Hachard: Denis Côté’s Animal Instincts
October 2012Bestiaire’s place in the filmmaker’s oeuvre and anthropomorphic conceptions.
Chip Ward: A Letter of Apology to My Granddaughter
March 2012Chip Ward writes to granddaughter Madeline about the problems of the world she’s about to inherit.
[All morning I feed the petals]
August 2011the way a child just born / already knows to kiss head down
Terror of the Back Eighty Acres
May 2011He grew tame // and hunted the dreams of farm kids—every tree scratch / on the window were his nails, every pregnant farm girl // was knocked up with the devil’s seed and spiderbabies.
Fieldwork
May 2011Since 1997, I have spent several months each year living alongside biologists in the rainforests of Peru, Brazil, French Guyana, and Costa Rica. As an artist I am attracted to the idea that when I am working in a rainforest, I am a “visual researcher.”
Alexis Madrigal: Further Reading Recommendations from a Guernica Writer
April 2011 |
Guernica feature writer Alexis Madrigal provides further reading recommendations for reminding us that nature always has the last word. |
Guernica’s Top 5 on Natural Disasters
August 2010Sweltering heat and blazing fires in Russia have contributed to devastating mudslides in Pakistan and China. Guernica counts down its top five reports of natural disasters.
Oil and Ash
By Michael BazzettJuly 2010
I understand this economically, and I’d rather not / mention the resemblance to prostitution, but when I open my / mouth it also fills with something called sky
Fish-Work, Bering Sea
July 2010A photographer chronicles his career as a commercial fisherman, a career he both romanticizes and loathes.
In Angangueo
June 2010Little boys in drifts of dulling orange were trying / to pack balls of wings to throw at each other; / she thought perhaps she wouldn’t have children.
