The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Author: Melanie Viets

  • Making maps in the backwoods

    Making maps in the backwoods

    Melanie Viets speaks to influential artist Jussi Kivi about mapping hidden histories in the landscapes around (and under) Helsinki and beyond.

  • Editorial: Root Mapping

    Editorial: Root Mapping

      There is no map to the place we are going. We will be lost for a good, long time. — Eva Saulitis, Becoming Earth (2016)     Between Vermont’s Green Mountains and river valleys, an estimated 1,500 migrant farmworkers milk the cows and run machinery that help keep the state’s landscape open and its…

  • Open call: Root Mapping

    Open call: Root Mapping

      *** Root Mapping is currently closed for submissions. We will reopen again soon. You can sign up to our newsletter for updates. ***     There is no map to the place we are going. We will be lost for a good, long time. — Eva Saulitis, Becoming Earth (2016)   Between Vermont’s Green…