Tuning to Terra seeks new possibilities in ecological art through the exploration of ecotones—the places between ecological regions that defy delineation—as teachers, collaborators, and guides for resistance in an era marked by anthropocentric hierarchies and anthropogenic devastation. Evolving from interactions and observations in riparian and coastal ecotones in the Pacific Northwest and on the Texas/Mexico border, the work is grounded in sustainable, material-conscious making through direct collaborations with the land.

We relate, know, think, word, and tell stories through and with other stories, worlds, knowledges, thinkings, yearnings. So do all the other critters of Terra, in all our bumptious diversity and category-breaking speciations and knottings…Critters are at stake in each other in every mixing and turning of the terran compost pile. We are compost, not posthuman; we inhabit the humusities, not the humanities.”

-Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble