Presented at the Planetary Health Alliance Annual Meeting 2021 — “We mindspeak so you may only hear truth.” — Ursula K. LeGuin, City of Illusions. 1. Self I was burnt out. Art became my therapy. I would start with a line and let my hand go wherever it wanted to go. By the time I returned to the starting point of that…

Last year I wrote about solastalgia, the psychic pain of climate change. I interpreted human emotional spikes as Earth’s way of communicating with the organisms that live upon it. Manifesto of a Solastalgic Artist Artist is a translator. She receives the distress calls of the Planet. She alone can trap those abstract cues into…medium.com I compare the nature of the planetary dialogue with the transmissions that run our human bodies. Take, for example, white blood…

Solastalgia: A form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home. _ Glenn Albrecht Earth is a living body. Artist is a translator. The artist’s body is the first to converse with Earth’s body through the language of turbulence, making their ailments one and the same…

✋ Spoiler Alert What makes road rage so sticky and juicy that it can take over any sensible person and turn them into a monster? What drives a person to weaponize one’s car to unleash all background frustrations onto a complete stranger? What are those background frustrations? BEEF looks into…

I originally typed this in imdb reviews but it was declined, (apparently “that ending though…” is more acceptable per imdb standards) so here we go: ✋ Spoiler Alert The show on the surface is about man and woman, love and lust, and perhaps attempting the tough case for polyamory. But…

Los Angeles — İstanbul Sabah oğlum babasının yaptığı yumurtalı ekmeği cottage cheese’in içinde dolaştırdı dolaştırdı. Üç kelimeyle anlattı. “Gemi, dalga, sular.” Ben de dedim evet oğlum köpük onlar, yelkenlin dalgalara çarptıkça suları köpürtüyor, su beyaz beyaz köpük köpük oluyor. Çok severdim seyretmeyi vapurun arkasında. Bütün yol bakardım. Telefonsuz jenerasyon. Bi…

(Note to self) — Excuse me while I indulge in my “JOMO” (Joy of Missing Out). I’m dropping in on meta for a quick second to recommend a book📕 that is aligned with so much I’ve been thinking, saying, practicing lately. 👶🏻👶🏻 Life with 2 babies under the age of 2 — not my…

A couple of times they did that. Before I could stop it. Right after he gets the shot, when he starts whining a little bit, they just popped this surprise egg car toy thing before I could stop it. And of course, it distracts him and he stops crying but…

Bizi hayvanlardan ayıran özellik… ile başlayan fikirlere kanaat getirmem zor. Bizi hayvanlardan tek özellik bizi hayvanlardan ayıran özellik aramak.