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The Paradoxes of Creativity
Ava Osbiston
26th September, 2024
Third in this month's series on 'Hands and Tools', maker and core member of the Dark Mountain team Ava Osbiston discusses reworking castoff industrial materials to give them a new life, while recognizing how embedded we are in our modern age.


The Axe in Winter
Neale Inglenook
5th September, 2024
For our first offering in our 'Hands and Tools' series this month, editor Neale Inglenook discusses converting the axe from a tool of empire to one of connection and care.


Learning What to Make of It
Paul Kingsnorth
24th May, 2017
When we win, it’s with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. What...


An Extended Recipe for Bread
Simeon Ayres
19th December, 2013
Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable...
These Companions That Speak Silently to Our Eyes
Dougald Hine
10th January, 2013
The remark jumped out at me because I had heard precisely the same claim from...