Of Earth and Empire

Beginning in 2017, Kate Rawles traversed South America along the spine of the Andes, In today's post she outlines the journey and the mindset of extractivism that besets the extraordinary lands she travelled through.

Today we bring you an excerpt from the new collection of essays, Mossback, by David Michael Pritchett, who looks for ways to resist empire and heal our cultural wounds by immersing himself in the murky waters of our living world. Introduced by Neale Inglenook.

An owl's silent wing swoops over writer Kim Schnuelle, reminding her to seek rest in order to restore her sense of the sacred.

'Activist and writer Shrishtee Bajpai on working alongside Indigenous peoples from a pristine river in Ladakh to an urban forest in Mumbai. From our latest issue ARK

Mat Osmond reflects on 'The Magnitude of All Things;', Jennifer Abbott's searing and luminous film about of personal and planetary grief

In the light of recent climate protests, Mat Osmond considers what it entails to hold ourselves accountable to a generation facing catastrophe.

Nathanael Bonnell re-examines the role of maps in the context of place, culture, colonialism and future-history and asks what will the new maps look like, and how will we create them?

Latest in our series on art and activism is set around a modern peace camp and ancient hermitage in Scotland’s Rosneath peninsula, home of the UK’s Trident nuclear submarines. Images from 'Trinity', a new book by Oliver Raymond Barker, with text by Nick Hunt.

In the wake of our new issue, 'Abyss', Joanna Guthrie charts a year's botanical voyage through the Norfolk waterlands threatened by a major roadbuilding project.

A year since the start of the protests in Portland, following the murder of George Floyd, Edith Mirante writes of riots, wolves and elk.