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# The Learned Pig

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- [Moon and More](https://thelearnedpig.org/moon-and-more/10652) - Short lyric memoir exploring the deep maps of place and being - previously unpublished writing by Lori Mairs (1961- 2021).
- [Open call: Root Mapping](https://thelearnedpig.org/open-call-root-mapping/6725) - *** 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
- [Open Call: Fields](https://thelearnedpig.org/open-call-fields/6671) - *** Fields is currently closed for submissions. We will reopen again soon. You can sign up to our newsletter for updates. *** In May 1982, American artist Agnes Denes began to transform a two acre empty plot at the foot of the World Trade Center into her work Wheatfield - A Confrontation,
- [Echtrai](https://thelearnedpig.org/echtrai/10621) - An interview with Baz Nichols, editor of Echtrai, a new art and literary journal exploring landscapes lost, abandoned, forgotten, mythic.
- [A Good Life / Subsistence](https://thelearnedpig.org/linnea-ryshke-a-good-life-subsistence/10590) - Two poems with accompanying artwork by Linnea Ryshke, extracts from Kindling (Lantern Publishing and Media, September 2021).
- [The Place Where Things Cannot be Measured](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-place-where-things-cannot-be-measured/10581) - Before Assumptions / The Place Where Things Cannot Be Measured: two new poems taking inspiration from the natural world by Cabot Sayles.
- [Books of the Month](https://thelearnedpig.org/books-of-the-month-archive/1205) - February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 Like a Tree, Walking Vahni Capildeo Carcanet November 2021 Pothos Rosa Campbell Broken Sleep Books October 2021 Cartographies of the Imagination Kirsty Badenoch, Sayan Skandarajah (editors) September 2021 Epic Camilla Nelson Guillemot Press August 2021 Echtrai Journal B G Nichols / Bran Graeme Nairne (editors) AnMór July 2021 Florilegia
- [Lille Gris](https://thelearnedpig.org/lille-gris/10502) - Lille Gris was dreamt up before Brexit and Covid-19 changed everything. In December 2017 an invitation arrived to participate in an exhibition programme at the North Atlantic Lighthouse in Hanstholm, Denmark. This presented an ideal opportunity to open new dialogues on the welfare and intelligence of farmed pigs. In our previous work, CARNEVALE, Cath Keay
- [I Recall Recalling Straw](https://thelearnedpig.org/i-recall-recalling-straw/10567) - New poetry from the fields by Mark Goodwin, with accompanying artwork by Dominique Cameron.
- [Essays on Dog Walking, I & II](https://thelearnedpig.org/jason-allen-paisant-essays-on-dog-walking-i-ii/10314) - Two poems from Thinking with Trees, the brilliant debut collection from Jason Allen-Paisant - published by Carcanet.
- [August & Grain](https://thelearnedpig.org/august-grain/8368) - The fields were sudden bare – John Clare Across the field, a half-mile or more away – across a dry liquid rustle of oats – a combine moves ... slow as a clock. Its smoke-& -dust plume flags its position as it cuts the first swath close to the headland’s hedge
- [Turning Tables](https://thelearnedpig.org/mandy-suzanne-wong-kathryn-eddy-turning-tables/10526) - An in-depth essay on the work of artist-activist Kathryn Eddy, from Mandy-Suzanne Wong's new book, Listen, we all bleed, published by New Rivers Press, November 2021.
- [Digging in this Dirt](https://thelearnedpig.org/josh-mabie-digging-in-this-dirt/10088) - With his wife Kerstin, Josh Mabie co-owns Pied Beauty Farm, a no-spray orchard, flower farm, and apiary just outside of Stoughton, Wisconsin.
- [Beans](https://thelearnedpig.org/beans/10476) - A new personal essay by gardener-writer Mandy Goddard, making connections between farming, protest, and the beautiful 'yin yang' bean.
- [Meadow Grass / Unmake the Land](https://thelearnedpig.org/meadow-grass-unmake-the-land/10447) - "In the tracks of grazing cattle and the oak tree’s swell" - a pair of new poems about labour and the land by writer Hannah Green.
- [Residency Reflections](https://thelearnedpig.org/residency-reflections/10428) - Artist Rosa Farber, who currently lives and works at Laines Organic Farm, looks back at her online residency with The Learned Pig.
- [4004](https://thelearnedpig.org/joana-moll-4004-2/10407) - Artist Joana Moll introduces 4004, a new project that explores the devastating impact of technology on climate change and biodiversity.
- [Making maps in the backwoods](https://thelearnedpig.org/jussi-kivi-making-maps-in-the-backwoods/9903) - Melanie Viets speaks to influential artist Jussi Kivi about mapping hidden histories in the landscapes around (and under) Helsinki and beyond.
- [Le Président / The Crocodile Feeder](https://thelearnedpig.org/le-president-the-crocodile-feeder/10115) - Le Président: Seven Days In the beginning, Le President, flattened his ancestral villagei, to create his idea of heaven. "Let there be no jungle"; & there was no jungle. He razed the earth with excavators to make space for his creations. & He made the low-lying metal sheds & maquis disappear. & He cloaked
- [Compost: Turning the Heap](https://thelearnedpig.org/compost-turning-the-heap/10368) - Taking time to reflect: artist Kathrin Böhm on sustaining an art practice while resisting the pressure of endlessly producing more projects.
- [The Four Seasons](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-four-seasons/10339) - A collaborative essay and acoustic piece by Chris Turnbull and Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim. The project documents an abandoned black walnut grove in Kemptville, Ontario, through acoustic recordings and observation.
- [Bees, Art and Biodiversity](https://thelearnedpig.org/sue-spaid-be-biodiverse/9954) - How can artists improve biodiversity? Philosopher, author and curator Sue Spaid's 2020 lecture explains (includes video + edited transcript).
- [Lessons from Seed](https://thelearnedpig.org/col-gordon-lessons-from-seed/10039) - A personal essay by seed researcher and baker Col Gordon on the complex relationships between plants, people and place.
- [Observation Journal](https://thelearnedpig.org/sergey-kishchenko-observation-journal/8479) - In WWII, Nazis and Soviets fought for control over a seed collection. Now, artist Sergey Kishchenko plants fields to reconstruct these forgotten histories.
- [Cartographies of the Imagination](https://thelearnedpig.org/cartographies-of-the-imagination/10251) - Cartographies of the Imagination explores the outer limits of what a map can be, interrogating the bit of lost land that falls between the pages of an atlas, journeying to places known, unknown, forgotten and fictional. INTRODUCTION To map a place is to create a whole new one. Maps may begin
- [Fields of View](https://thelearnedpig.org/fields-of-view/10187) - Chicago-based naturalist and botanist Andrew Hipp on the connecting threads between science, natural history and writing.
- [Dead Owls and Blue Bottle Flies](https://thelearnedpig.org/dead-owls-and-blue-bottle-flies/9570) - Heather Swan, author of Where Honeybees Thrive, explores the taxidermy art of Claire Morgan alongside her own encounters with owls and death.
- [Behind the Orange Curtain](https://thelearnedpig.org/behind-the-orange-curtain/10191) - Besides getting the usual “Go West, Young Man”-type pandering that we all seem to get from American propaganda, a couple things I came across as a Midwest wanderlust adolescent that really resonated with me on multiple levels were teeny-bopper shows like Fox’s The O.C., and MTV’s Laguna Beach, which ultimately planted a Manifest Destiny spiritual
- [Making Paradise](https://thelearnedpig.org/making-paradise-islamic-garden-design/10133) - Making Paradise at the Aga Khan Centre, London is an exhibition dedicated to historic and contemporary Islamic Garden Design.
- [In the PoemGarden](https://thelearnedpig.org/alice-entwistle-in-the-poemgarden/10107) - A personal essay by Professor Alice Entwistle of the University of South Wales exploring the many connections between poetry and gardening,
- [Open Call: Rot](https://thelearnedpig.org/open-call-rot/6686) - *** Rot is currently closed for submissions. We will reopen again soon. You can sign up to our newsletter for updates. *** The world is full of both collaborations and contaminations. The evolutionary theory of symbiogenesis tells us that we are born of indigestion; some 2 billion years ago, one bacterial cell
- [Open call: Rhythm](https://thelearnedpig.org/open-call-rhythm/6733) - *** Rhythm is currently closed for submissions. We will reopen again soon. You can sign up to our newsletter for updates. *** From the impact of clocks on notions of time, to the effects of computers, trains and planes on experiences of modern life, rhythm – in various forms and ways – determines,
- [4 generations of women topography](https://thelearnedpig.org/tereza-stehlikova-4-generations-of-women-topography/10001) - Fragments of text, film and photography: artist Tereza Stehlikova explores the bonds between the 4 women within her family.
- [Macroalgae Matters](https://thelearnedpig.org/sargassum-macroalgae-matters/9989) - Seaweed in a time of climate crisis: an encounter with a rotten seashore funk prompts writer Andrew Furman to discover more about sargassum.
- [Resistance Baking](https://thelearnedpig.org/marisol-malatesta-resistance-baking/9765) - "Bread-making as a form of activism" - a wide-ranging interview with Marisol Malatesta, baker, artist and teacher.
- [Eternal Forest](https://thelearnedpig.org/evgenia-emets-eternal-forest/9641) - Extracts from Eternal Forest, an art project by Evgenia Emets which transforms human relationships with biodiversity, time and the sacred.
- [Breathing Trees](https://thelearnedpig.org/gavin-van-horn-breathing-trees/9445) - On a writing residency in the Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, Gavin Van Horn embraces the vital possibilities of more-than-human perspectives.
- [Crosscutting / Night Strands / Homesteads](https://thelearnedpig.org/crosscutting-night-strands-homesteads/9524) - Three new poems from the farmlands of Idaho by Samuel Strathman.
- [the scars of interpretation](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-scars-of-interpretation/9532) - A trio of asemic poems by Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset.
- [Surge](https://thelearnedpig.org/surge/9548) - How to live when your own emotional responses remain a mystery? New writing on family and grief by Catharine Murray.
- [Stories from The Whale Road](https://thelearnedpig.org/helen-cann-stories-from-the-whale-road/9332) - A journey from Iceland across to the Faroe Islands and finally to Sweden, by illustrator, artist and author Helen Cann.
- [An Oral History of the Whitechapel Monster](https://thelearnedpig.org/an-oral-history-of-the-whitechapel-monster/9587) - A digital found text poem by Sam Fulton, charting the trajectory of the Whitechapel Fatberg, an enormous mass of congealed fat in the sewers beneath London.
- [Haunting Stones](https://thelearnedpig.org/haunting-stones/9336) - Delving back into the histories of Virginia, writer Darlene Taylor encounters song lyrics and merchant lists, slave narratives, adventure tales, and their material traces in buildings and landscape.
- [Sing the Gloaming](https://thelearnedpig.org/sing-the-gloaming/9341) - An interview with Professor Simon Kirby and artist/ musicians Tommy Perman and Rob St. John discussing their ongoing collaborative project, Sing the Gloaming.
- [A Receptive Walk](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-receptive-walk/9672) - Audio, photography and text by artist Jessica Emsley from A Receptive Walk, an artistic exercise to disrupt the usual rhythms of more-than-human communication.
- [...como na morte crescem as heras...](https://thelearnedpig.org/alix-breda-como-na-morte-crescem-as-heras/9688) - 'to fall like a wounded animal into a place that was meant for revelations' - a new series of photographs by Brazil-based artist Alix Breda.
- [+ Other Cartographies](https://thelearnedpig.org/other-cartographies/9774) - Kiara Marina Firpi Carrión reveals the motivations behind + Other Cartographies, a research project to highlight work by women map-makers.
- [Seeds](https://thelearnedpig.org/seeds/9824) - A Q&A with No Stone Theatre Director Nicolas Pitt about his production Seeds, following the story of Nikolai Vavilov.
- [Mirror Mirror](https://thelearnedpig.org/tom-lovelace-mirror-mirror/9804) - Tom Lovelace introduces Mirror Mirror, a remote collaborative project involving live performance, photography and digital technologies.
- [Toast to the Spring / waveformed](https://thelearnedpig.org/toast-to-the-spring-waveformed/9892) - Toast to the Spring Black fangs to the east, badlands to the west, the world beyond — glaciers, jungles, dunes and meadows — and home, the garden and the spinney. Lemon seed, a splash of you. A toast. A thousand years in limestone prison. A minute in the sunshine, drowned in the ocean.
- [Songs We Learn from Trees](https://thelearnedpig.org/songs-we-learn-from-trees/9031) - Chris Beckett and Alemu Tebeje give the lowdown on the Amharic poetry of Ethiopia. Then poetry by Solomon Deressa, Gebre Kristos Desta and Liyou Libsekal.
- [Time Go Slow / The Violence Raga](https://thelearnedpig.org/jonaki-ray-time-go-slow-the-violence-raga/9347) - Two new poems by Jonaki Ray exploring gender, marriage, migration, music, violence and the possibility of justice.
- [Furry Attractions: Polar Bears in the Zoo](https://thelearnedpig.org/furry-attractions-polar-bears-in-the-zoo/4185) - In the western hemisphere, polar bears have lived in our midst since the Middle Ages, a result of our fascination with these charismatic carnivores. Already in 1252, Henry III of England kept a muzzled and chained polar bear, which was allowed to catch fish and frolic about in the Thames. The first unequivocally identifiable polar
- [Hello, World: Making Nature at Wellcome Collection](https://thelearnedpig.org/hello-world-making-nature-at-wellcome-collection/3989) - Karl Reich’s 1913 recording of a nightingale – among the world’s earliest extant recordings of bird song – feels like a bottled metaphor for modernity. Trapped in shellac, this sweet twittering turned stand-in for nature, poetry and sex all at once, becomes a ghost of its living and mythical self, haunting us with questions of
- [The Beast is not only the Tiger](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-beast-is-not-only-the-tiger/1297) - The top floor of a modernist apartment block seems an unlikely location for the studio of an artist best-known for his engagement with botany. Nonetheless this is where we find Alberto Baraya, one of Colombia's most prominent contemporary artists: his working environment not the cavernous white-walled spaces favoured by Bogotá's other leading practitioners, but a
- [Plant Migrations](https://thelearnedpig.org/plant-migrations/3047) - With human civilisation comes ecological engineering. Over 10,000 years we have changed the world in increasingly dramatic ways. Many of these changes have been deliberate. Many have been the unintended consequences of our unquenchable curiosity and our anthropocentric thinking. How soon did early modifications of grasses in the fertile crescent of our imagination become commodities?
- [A New Map of Berlin](https://thelearnedpig.org/new-map-berlin/4214) - Anton Newcombe, leader of the psych-rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, is one of my more unlikely acquaintances in Berlin. His recording studio is just a few blocks from my apartment, north-west of Nordbahnhof, where affluent Mitte begins to meld with the predominantly Turkish, working-class neighbourhood of Wedding. I sometimes cycle there for a late
- [Foxing](https://thelearnedpig.org/foxing/4526) - Slip like quiet fire through woods on velvet feet (bad fairies gave foxes their foxgloves to transform them into silent hunters)i. I hear a mouse think under a foot of snow, and making a springing high-dive pounce to catch it, such that my tail waves vertically, joyfully, ludicrously, in the air above me.
- [The monstrous body](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-monstrous-body/5420) - Scary Monsters II: global greed and the gluttonous dodo Monsters are not just things that lurk under the bed. They are powerful images that have always been used to represent the things we might not want to face in ourselves, as individuals or as communities. Different monsters have represented different fears or anxieties in different
- [Museum: Ursus americanus](https://thelearnedpig.org/museum-ursus-americanus/6827) - On birches, bears, and the birth of farm animals: three new poems by Todd Davis.
- [(Re)Imagining the Insect](https://thelearnedpig.org/reimagining-the-insect/1650) - 54 million years before humans appeared on earth, there was once upon a time an insect that died, its cadaver is still visible and intact, the cadaver of someone who was surprised by death at the instant it was sucking the blood of another! Jacques Derrida, Typewriter Ribbon, 1998 It is all very
- [Artist-in-Residence: Rosa Farber](https://thelearnedpig.org/artist-in-residence-rosa-farber/9079) - Welcome to The Learned Pig's inaugural artist residency! This residency is in part the result of ongoing discussions among our editorial team. We've been trying to think through ways to develop more closely collaborative relationships with contributors that involve open-ended discussions over time. We've also been thinking about ways to present works in progress. Mostly,
- [The History of Cartography](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-history-of-cartography/9384) - An in-depth interview with Matthew H. Edney and Mary Sponberg Pedley, editors of Volume IV of The History of Cartography.
- [re:rural](https://thelearnedpig.org/haarlem-artspace-rerural/9422) - Anna Souter visist Haarlem Artspace to review re:rural, a project taking place both digitally and at the organisation's home in the Derbyshire Dales.
- [Coring Europa / induction rhetoric](https://thelearnedpig.org/coring-europa-induction-rhetoric/9366) - Two new poems by Josh Allsop, whose research explores the experience of difficulty in the poetries of Geoffrey Hill and J.H. Prynne.
- [Epiphaneia](https://thelearnedpig.org/richard-georges-epiphaneia/8900) - Rituals; Too Full of Vermouth and Cigarette Smoke: two poems from Epiphaneia, the 2019 collection from OCM Bocas Prize-winner Richard Georges.
- [Mapping Legacies of British Slave-Ownership](https://thelearnedpig.org/mapping-legacies-of-british-slave-ownership/8964) - Discussing the power of maps with Rachel Lang, chief administrator and researcher at The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College of London.
- [Spoiled Waters Spilled](https://thelearnedpig.org/spoiled-waters-spilled/9296) - Previewing an exhibition exploring rivers, contamination and cross-border circulation. Part of Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud.
- [Apple Path](https://thelearnedpig.org/juliet-duckworth-apple-path/9184) - Apples, animals, and old farm folklore: documentation from a decomposing land art intervention by artist Juliet Duckworth.
- [Between Two Memories](https://thelearnedpig.org/ian-giles-between-two-memories/9192) - Artist Ian Giles uncovers hidden queer histories as part of New Geographies, a three-year project to create a new map of the East of England.
- [...Remains](https://thelearnedpig.org/remains/7888) - Artist Gillian Genser describes how making art caused irreparable damage to her own body due to the toxic residues of human progress.
- [...these little queer ciphers...](https://thelearnedpig.org/cipher-press-these-little-queer-ciphers/8588) - A Q&A with Jenn Thompson and Ellis, co-founders of Cipher Press, a new independent publisher of queer fiction and non-fiction.
- [Marching Orders](https://thelearnedpig.org/marching-orders/9170) - The drums began to crescendo, War horses and infantry prepare; A performance all to common in history. Footsteps echo through corridors, Marching to the drumbeat's cacophony. Left, left, left-right-left The energy becomes a symphony! Left, right, left Orders obscured by the drums Unclear, of who may be the enemy. In the distance, perceived dissension;
- [Way-Hame Poems](https://thelearnedpig.org/hannah-lavery-way-hame-poems/9022) - "For a time, I used to get the train from Dunbar to Edinburgh and back again at least twice a week." Poetry from a rhythmic commute - by Hannah Lavery.
- [Dream of the River](https://thelearnedpig.org/obi-kaufmann-deam-river/8532) - "I have a story to tell you and it has two characters, the river, and the salmon." New writing, maps and sketches by California-based poet and painter Obi Kaufmann.
- [Going to Ground](https://thelearnedpig.org/emma-cousin-going-to-ground/8681) - Root systems as a metaphor for friends, family and routines: new lockdown garden paintings and drawings by artist Emma Cousin.
- [Pharmakeia](https://thelearnedpig.org/erin-rogers-pharmakeia/9014) - The Circe myth updated for the age of synthetic biology: disconcerting new writing by Erin Rogers, with accompanying art by John Stark.
- [Compassionate Climate Activism](https://thelearnedpig.org/compassionate-climate-activism/7594) - Vermont-based environmental and social justice advocate Chris Gaynor on the compulsion to protect, educate and care for our species.
- [Lady Lazarus](https://thelearnedpig.org/kate-dunn-lady-lazarus/8927) - An in-depth interview with London-based artist Kate Dunn, exploring the importance of rhythm in her dynamic abstract paintings.
- [Placemaps](https://thelearnedpig.org/daegan-miller-placemaps/8530) - Daegan Miller, author of This Radical Land, on moving house, making maps, and finding home - from Massachusetts to Wisconsin to New York and back again.
- [Gardening in the Tropics](https://thelearnedpig.org/gardening-in-the-tropics/5842) - Brief Lives Gardening in the Tropics, you never know what you'll turn up. Quite often, bones. In some places they say when volcanoes erupt, they spew out dense and monumental as stones the skulls of desaparecidos - the disappeared ones. Mine is only a kitchen garden so I unearth just occasional skeletons. The
- [Growing SCOBY in Inappropriate Contexts](https://thelearnedpig.org/bianca-hlywa-scoby/7935) - Artist Bianca Hlywa delves into the process of making collaborative installations using SCOBY - symbiotic cultures of bacteria and yeast.
- [Editorial: Rot](https://thelearnedpig.org/editorial-rot/8701) - Editor Julia Cavicchi introduces Rot, a section of The Learned Pig exploring multispecies creativity through modest tales of collaboration and coexistence.
- [Absence of Evidence](https://thelearnedpig.org/absence-of-evidence/8803) - A new photographic collaboration between art duo Henry/Bragg and former street sex workers in Hull honouring 14 of their fellow workers who have died.
- [Dessins de téléphone](https://thelearnedpig.org/dessins-de-telephone/7487) - This is part of RHYTHM, a section of The Learned Pig devoted to exploring rhythm as individual and collective, as poetic and biological, and the ways that rhythm dictates life. RHYTHM is conceived and edited by Rachel Goldblatt.
- [Hinge](https://thelearnedpig.org/hinge/8626) - My Body is a Forest; Self-Addressed; Elsewhere - three poems from Hinge, Alycia Pirmohamed's new poetry pamphlet, published by Ignition Press.
- [Petites Morts](https://thelearnedpig.org/petites-morts/7928) - An ongoing photographic collaboration between artist Nadège Meriau and mushrooms gathered from an ancient woodland in North London.
- [Collaborations on the Corner](https://thelearnedpig.org/phill-hopkins-collaborations-on-the-corner/8718) - Collaboratively produced paintings on cardboard by Phill Hopkins and Jadene Imbush - part of a larger project on the UK's burgeoning homelessness crisis.
- [Canopic Jars: the Afterlife of Matter](https://thelearnedpig.org/canopic-jars-the-afterlife-of-matter/7600) - Artists Anna Walker and Genie Poretzky-Lee make use of glass jars as containers for an experimental process of growth and transformation.
- [Redundant, Outdated, Trivial](https://thelearnedpig.org/redundant-outdated-trivial/7654) - In praise of decomposition, fermentation and transformation by Fin Jordão, the water and waste officer at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.
- [In The Fray](https://thelearnedpig.org/hana-wilde-in-the-fray/7905) - "Sewing is an act of care and kindness," says artist Hana Wilde. "I look for the shared textures, colours and forms between the human and non-human."
- [The Poetry of Rearguard Consciousness](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-poetry-of-rearguard-consciousness/7780) - Exploring the neurological primacy of the scribble or scrawl - a series of recent drawings and/as poetry by artist and poet SJ Fowler.
- [Soundmarks](https://thelearnedpig.org/soundmarks/8562) - Rose Ferraby and Rob St. John discuss their audio-visual art project animating the sub-surface world of the landscapes beneath Aldborough, North Yorkshire.
- [Field notes from a place that does not remember](https://thelearnedpig.org/field-notes-from-a-place-that-does-not-remember/8667) - New writing on landscape and memory by Dave Borthwick, a self-described 'tramper of fields and stander in the rain' who lives in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
- [Pulse Project](https://thelearnedpig.org/pulse-project/8281) - Artist and acupuncturist Michelle Lewis-King draws upon Chinese medical practices to translate bodily rythms into collaborative performances.
- [(on)zichtbaar](https://thelearnedpig.org/onzichtbaar/8456) - "If we open our eyes and look further, we realize a mistake has been made, and the wrong story has been told." Words: Marloe Mens. Photography: Kiki Muyres.
- [All The Places](https://thelearnedpig.org/all-the-places/8542) - Three poems by South African poet and clinical psychologist Musawenkosi Khanyile, from his recent collection, All The Places, published by uHlanga Press.
- [The Art of Fermentation](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-art-of-fermentation-an-interview-with-sandor-ellix-katz/170) - Sandor Ellix Katz is the author of The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes From Around The World, “the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published”. Released in 2012 with a foreword by Michael Pollan, it has received rapturous praise in both the food world and in environmentalist
- [Feral Phytocracy](https://thelearnedpig.org/feral-phytocracy/5966) - Vegetal Apparitions for the 21st Century Late May, about a month into my three-month residency at the Nida Art Colony (NAC) in Lithuania, a thought from my incessant internal monologue stopped me dead in my tracks. As most afternoons, if the swarms of mosquitoes permitted, I had been wandering along the sandy paths criss-crossing the
- [Mapping the In-Betweens](https://thelearnedpig.org/mapping-the-in-betweens/7237) - By the time I was seven I had moved house four times in three countries on two continents. A few years later, I found myself dropped into another new place: a summer spent in Čelákovice, a small town in the Czech Republic. Culture shock, the hollowness of first-time jetlag, feeling so fragile and porous that
- [From A Queer Ornithology](https://thelearnedpig.org/from-a-queer-ornithology/6884) - For those who delight more in the seed of things, I can say that these poems investigate queer, genderfluid indigeneity, and interspecies-relational philosophy through deep observation of wild birds.
- [Editorial: Fields](https://thelearnedpig.org/editorial-fields/8185) - In May 1982, American artist Agnes Denes began to transform a two acre empty plot at the foot of the World Trade Center into her work Wheatfield - A Confrontation, Battery Park Landfill. In the prior months, truck loads of dirty landfill had been dumped on the site, consisting of rubble, dirt, rusty pipes, automobile
- [The Hockey Stick Poster Child](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-hockey-stick-poster-child/8430) - The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research — Wald, Schnee und Landschaft (WSL) in German — sits on top of a hill in Birmensdorf, just outside Zurich. Tree-ring research first became part of WSL’s research mission in 1971, when Fritz Schweingruber started his work there. Fritz is a botanist, an archeologist, and
- [Orpheus Dispersed](https://thelearnedpig.org/orpheus-dispersed/8414) - There upped a tree! O absolute outstripping! O Orpheus singing! O tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even under cover came a new start, a sign, a transforming. – Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus (trans. Martyn Crucefix) Characters CHORUS OF TREES THE TWITCHER THE MOON THE YOUNG
- [Revisiting a Geography of Hope](https://thelearnedpig.org/revisiting-a-geography-of-hope/7998) - To be a farmer, at any point in history, means you grow food. You steward the land - soil, water, air, energy, plants, and animals - and make a living from its increase. It seems simple, at least in purpose, if not in practice: Grow good food. Now, in the twenty-first century, awareness is growing
- [Landscape Amnesia](https://thelearnedpig.org/landscape-amnesia/8008) - As the last horse trailer passes you by on the potholed road you take an exit. Across a green pasture you park the car. You stretch your legs. Gravel grinds underneath the feet while walking towards the bar – “Tattan’s Ring View Bar” it reads on the yellowish plastered building. Flowers in pots await under
- [Earth Turned Honey](https://thelearnedpig.org/earth-turned-honey/7773) - Moksha The desert has no memory. Sun beats on its chest, collarbone glistens: I wait for rain, an angry sea filling the sky to break, blow, burn, make a new world order. Agave pierces clouds while amethyst mountains rest in heavy sleep. I have asked permission to make this desolate ground my home. Beneath
- [Enemy of the State](https://thelearnedpig.org/enemy-of-the-state/7976) - Botanical illustrations of the early modern period (1550-1800), the “big science” of their day, served as documentation of useful plants found in colonial territories. Plants such as tobacco, sugar cane, cinnamon, cotton and tea were but a few items deemed reliable “cash crops” during this era of global economic expansion. Botanical illustrations led the way
- [Drawing Water](https://thelearnedpig.org/drawing-water/8315) - Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on
- [Sheds and Silos](https://thelearnedpig.org/sheds-and-silos/7726) - I paint landscape from life and, as I live in London, frequently the subject of the work is buildings. I chose these four images for the project for their particular rhythmical structure. In Red Tower With Railings, the flat planes of the walls and structures are seen through a line of railings, in a more
- [Farming Awareness](https://thelearnedpig.org/farming-awareness/8129) - Visionary Farms In 1969, House & Garden magazine commissioned Patricia Johanson (b. 1940) to design estate gardens. In the letter inviting her to design gardens, landscape architect James Fanning clearly anticipated her using gravel, water, concrete blocks, wood or metal, rather than the natural materials her gardens deploy. When one examines the nearly 150 drawings
- [Rural Art is…](https://thelearnedpig.org/rural-art-is/8019) - This is an extract from Myvillages, ‘Rural Art Is…’, in The Rural, eds. Kathrin Böhm and Wapke Feenstra (London: Whitechapel Gallery/Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019) If you don’t like monocultures – whether in art or agriculture or elsewhere – you will like this book. The Rural questions and frustrates the current cultural hegemony
- [Recollecting Landscapes](https://thelearnedpig.org/recollecting-landscapes/8151) - Rephotography, Memory and Transformation 1904-1980-2004-2014 Recollecting Landscapes documents over a century of landscape transformation in Flanders. The first step of the project dates from the early twentieth century, when Jean Massart (1865-1925), a professor of botany at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels), initiated the photographic documentation of the Belgian landscape through
- [Fields of Knowing](https://thelearnedpig.org/fields-of-knowing/8249) - Orientation First, know food From food All things are born By food they live Toward food they move And into food they return ~~ Upanishads How do we come to know food? Our visual poetic has emerged over a three-day collaborative process in response to The Learned Pig’s current theme of Fields.
- [Undertow](https://thelearnedpig.org/frances-scott-undertow/8030) - Walking the Edge A trusted mentor once told me, having read my work, “You often write about the meeting places of land and water.” She was right, though I’d never thought about the habit before; my tendency to do so was neither intentional nor premeditated. “There are few things more ancient than humans walking to
- [Kenyan Roses for the Kingdom](https://thelearnedpig.org/kenyan-roses-for-the-kingdom/8117) - During a residency in London in 2019, I developed a research and artistic project around the cut rose industry in Kenya. This was linked to on the one hand to the biography of wildlife activist Joan Root and on the other to past British colonial entanglements that are nevertheless still valid and problematic until today.
- [Hommes sous Hommes, II](https://thelearnedpig.org/hommes-sous-hommes-ii/7810) - In 2005, I went to Palestine for three weeks with my parents, my wife and our daughter, aged two. We were invited to carry out workshops with young artists and kids. A mural was painted on the wall of a playground in a camp next to Qalendia check point. We made several friends and knew
- [To Dig a Hole (You Create a Heap)](https://thelearnedpig.org/to-dig-a-hole-you-create-a-heap/7877) - Here's a joke... Question: Who made money during the Gold Rush? Answer: The ones who sold the shovels. “You were asked to dig a hole? Do you understand how that sounds very strange?” When I told this to a friend, they seemed perplexed. And while I was initially confused by their response,
- [Holding Hands with the Land](https://thelearnedpig.org/holding-hands-with-the-land/8217) - They mix, knead, pour, roll, and pinch off hidden tastes. They leave streaks of butter on my glasses or fingerprints of flour on my clothes. Scattered burns, cuts, and calluses make them mine. Pleasantly sore wrists accompany me to bed many nights. But what I love most about my hands is the way they create
- [Cereal](https://thelearnedpig.org/cereal/8175) - Once, more than 10,000 years ago, Triticum - cereal - was a wild-growing genus with many varieties. Due to their nutritious grains, some of these varieties were cultivated by humans. The resulting access to a more structured food source lead to a whole new form of living, eating and digesting. A process that simultaneously affected
- [Untranslatable](https://thelearnedpig.org/untranslatable/7790) - Chamomile Freak-show Poisonous in the wild, or so I was told, overtaking the verges on the main road, probably nothing after oversized daisies perhaps, a gem or relaxation abates. Mirror versus lamp, a stay of education. Stock complexity produces verse upon verse, selectively lit past occasion obliging, stranger things have happened, mug in hand.
- [Canta de mí Sangre](https://thelearnedpig.org/canta-de-mi-sangre/7308) - Unabashed Creek bed: clear green washes all stones un-rough in smooth grip when the light spills and it is mid-week, no one is aware skins shed. Trees strip slipping off garments well-worn, hampers piled high fallen secrets left un-hidden. The afternoon appears in front of a hallow sky. I follow the trail and cross
- [Hommes sous Hommes, I](https://thelearnedpig.org/yves-berger-hommes-sous-hommes/6952) - In 2005, I went to Palestine for three weeks with my parents, my wife and our daughter, aged two. We were invited to carry out workshops with young artists and kids. A mural was painted on the wall of a playground in a camp next to Qalendia check point. We made several friends and knew
- [Editorial: Rhythm](https://thelearnedpig.org/editorial-rhythm/7613) - From the impact of clocks on notions of time, to the effects of computers, trains and planes on experiences of modern life, rhythm – in various forms and ways – determines, and has always determined, how we live our lives and how we see the world. Some rhythms bring people together: listening to music can
- [Dicksonia Antarctica](https://thelearnedpig.org/dicksonia-antarctica/7678) - The Tree Fern I once had a Tree Fern (Dicksonia Antarctica) For many, many years my First view each morning From our upstairs window. Beautiful, sweeping fronds So elegant in light breeze. I took care each winter to Wrap the crown, protect From frost and bitter winds. One spring it still stood tall Yet
- [A Weekend on Mars](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-weekend-on-mars/7694) - This Moment In Time Just when the crescent moon appeared. When the ailanthus shivered. When a heron shook its feathery crown and the little wheel turned inside the big wheel. While the palmist sighed, old and alone. At this juncture. At this moment in time, Winter putting on its walking boots, Autumn reflecting
- [A Foraged Map](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-foraged-map/7249) - Spread over my kitchen table, emptied from the various cloth bags and tubs, were the wild plants that I’d gathered that day. As I viewed them from above, deliberating as to what kind of meal I could make that would include them all, the array of textures conspired to suggest a visual record of the
- [The Wandering Walk](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-wandering-walk/7333) - The Wandering Walk is a site-specific installation located on the South Fyn Danish Island of Ærø. It engages with the familiar practice of walking as a mode of perception to explore and enrich the complex and shifting relationships between humans and nature. The installation is focused around the celebrated northern region of Vitsø. Frequently walked
- [The Burroughs Garret](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-burroughs-garret/7295) - In The Nature of Gothic, nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin wrote that there is beauty in imperfection, and that ‘the demand for perfection is always a sign of the misunderstanding of the ends of art.’ He also says that we should celebrate visible evidence of workmanship - chips and flaws - as ‘signs of the
- [A space, an ambiance, a home](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-space-an-ambiance-a-home/7373) - A modest row of cottages is set apart from Cambridge’s Castle Street by a small green on one side and St Peter’s Church on the other, right next to Cambridge University’s ancient Magdalene College and the backs of St John’s. You’d be forgiven for barely noticing the terrace that makes up Kettle’s Yard. Entering the
- [Living Symphonies](https://thelearnedpig.org/living-symphonies/7267) - Between Liverpool Street and Chingford, the heatwave had cooked the train carriage and all who rode in her to fetid ripeness. On the other side of the parting doors, the air thickened with an elegant stink. Gutsy lilies dressed in flouncy ribbon-tied bouquets languished in buckets of water just beyond the ticket barriers, insistent that
- [Sur toute la ligne](https://thelearnedpig.org/sur-toute-la-ligne/7395) - As walking, talking and gesticulating creatures, human beings generate lines wherever they go. - Tim Ingold, Lines: A Brief History (2007) All images: Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel, Untitled, alcohol-based ink on laminated paper, 65 x 50 cm. Photographs: Romain Darnaud kamilbouzoubaagrivel.com instagram.com/kamilbouzoubaagrivel This is part of
- [Border Dreams](https://thelearnedpig.org/border-dreams/6890) - I never dream about maps. I used to draw them for a living. I have dreams about every other passion. It occurs to me that to dream about maps might be almost impossible - like dreaming about dreaming. Mapping is its own activity, its own universe, separate from the rest of the living. One is
- [12 Circular Walks](https://thelearnedpig.org/12-circular-walks/7364) - Having been working on 180 degree panoramic drawings of opposite sides of the Severn, my attention shifted to exploring 360 degree imagery, something more immersive. The all-seeing eye of the 360 degree lens is hard to hide from. I began to frame myself within the ‘dome’, initially in stills, copying the posture of Caspar David
- [Entrained Rhythms](https://thelearnedpig.org/entrained-rhythms/7280) - I: Aretha I’ve just moved to Uppsala, Sweden, where at first I knew no-one, apart from my old friend Kalle, who with characteristic kindness invited me to go see Amazing Grace with him as soon as I arrived. We packed into the smallest room of the Fyrisbiografen, a tiny cinema constructed in 1911 and now
- [Editorial: Root Mapping](https://thelearnedpig.org/editorial-root-mapping/7161) - 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
- [Mapping Edge](https://thelearnedpig.org/mapping-edge/6936) - Mapping Edge Finger touched mapped faded edge, unending ink black shaped lines, tracing hillsides I walked as a child. Black tufted strokes, old rough pastures, where curlews once rose away from me, ungrazed now, fallen into rush thistled bog. . The parish track, a dry stone wall field margin, a ridgeway in words,
- [A Place That Mattered](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-place-that-mattered/6930) - The place where my son died had horses. Only because when a dying boy asks you for a horse, you find more than one. You make your way away from the busyness of your town beside the wide river to land in the mountains that is not your own. There you watch the horses wander
- [Endlings: Drawing Extinction](https://thelearnedpig.org/endlings-drawing-extinction/7417) - There are many different approaches to drawing animals. In particular there was a shift in the 19th century away from French idealism towards an approach, led by British artists such as Edward Lear, that prioritised drawing direct from nature. The work of Amy Dover, a fine artist and illustrator based in Newcastle, England, draws upon
- [Notes from the Field](https://thelearnedpig.org/notes-from-the-field/6903) - An amateur entomological and botanical study in four locations, at five different times of day, by artist Anna Garrett.
- [A Place Older than People](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-place-older-than-people/6926) - New poetry of rocks and pigeons by Anne Haven McDonnell with accompanying work by artist Deborah Westmancoat.
- [Gold and Guano](https://thelearnedpig.org/giancarlo-scaglia-gold-and-guano/7064) - "Thinking takes place in the relationship of territory and the earth," wrote Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Geophilosophy, an essay published in their 1991 collection, What is Philosophy? Standing right up close to the works of Giancarlo Scaglia, I wonder if that same strange place - somewhere between territory and earth - is where
- [A Voice Leads through Space](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-voice-leads-through-space/6864) - The narrow lane from Llanrhaeadr to the waterfall. The slopes of Glan Hafon one side, Moel Hen Fache the other.
- [Animals Out of Place](https://thelearnedpig.org/animals-out-of-place/6593) - There’s a post on Instagram; a photo mottled with gallery reflections, close-up and a little oblique. It shows a vintage glass slide of a zookeeper and his charge. It’s not the best image but has an instant power. The keeper, wearing a peaked cap and a stern expression, holds high a short, straight chain. On
- [The Lightning Way](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-lightning-way/6819) - I would often sit with my grandfather outside on the porch, watching the cloudbursts roll in from the horizon. They would come in thick, dark inky blue clouds heavy with rain over the top of Cochiti mesa; constantly churning and building with energy, as if they sensed the ancient presence of our old village. Grandpa
- [MOTHERBABYHOME](https://thelearnedpig.org/motherbabyhome/6309) - Kimberly Campanello on her series of poems that memorialises those who died at St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home, Ireland. Part of Radical Landscapes.
- [Art in a deteriorating world](https://thelearnedpig.org/art-in-a-deteriorating-world/6554) - An epistolary exploration of art's moral responsibilities “In the era of not yet, barely daring to guess of how soon,” wrote Welsh-British writer Horatio Clare about the melting sea ice, the planet’s air conditioner, in his book Icebreaker, published less then two years ago. Now the scientists dare to guess, and red lights on
- [Announcing...](https://thelearnedpig.org/announcing/6695) - The Learned Pig is changing. Since launching in November 2013, The Learned Pig has taken an instinctive approach to editorial. We have published what feels right to us and we have published as often as we can. We are very proud of the work we have done so far and the brilliant people we have
- [love poetry: the slug edit](https://thelearnedpig.org/love-poetry-the-slug-edit/6291) - I offer words of love to water, and to the place where it emerges, streams, out of the earth. One small book (precious), A Little Treasury of Love Lyrics - 1963, 79 pages, Pictorial pale blue dust jacket over red cloth boards, is lain on the moss bank, beside the stream — by the sermon-spilling
- [Foregathered wi’ the beast](https://thelearnedpig.org/last-wolf-foregathered/6484) - I am standing in a lay-by of the A9, 2 miles north of Brora. I am face to face, for the first time, with a stone that I encountered a photograph of a year earlier, in a book about the wondrous wildlife of Scotland. Paving slabs ascend the bank to a hefty lump of granite
- [Wild City Manifesto](https://thelearnedpig.org/wild-city-manifesto/6259) - the wild city is only the past repeating * wildness doesn’t begin or end at the edge of the city * the wild doesn’t shut at 10pm * wild things have their own sequence * bring back the seasons! * our material existence cannot be sustained without wildness * the wild city reverses destiny
- [Chanctonbury Rings](https://thelearnedpig.org/chanctonbury-rings/6530) - Chanctonbury Rings is a new spoken word and music project on Ghost Box Records by the poet and writer Justin Hopper and folk musician Sharron Kraus, and featuring Ghost Box’s own Belbury Poly. The album is based on live performances of Hopper’s book The Old Weird Albion (Penned in the Margins, 2017), a poetic and
- [A Line / Align](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-line-align/6515) - “A walk marks time with an accumulation of footsteps. It defines the form of the land. Walking the roads and paths is to trace a portrait of the country…” - Richard Long, Selected Statements and Interviews, Haunch of Venison Press, 2007 There is a rich history underfoot, and the very act of walking is
- [Join The Learned Pig!](https://thelearnedpig.org/join-the-learned-pig/6404) - The Learned Pig is looking for two new section editors to take a lead as we expand and adapt our editorial offering over the course of 2019. Each new section editor will take charge of one editorial thread and help to shape its direction. Currently these are art, thinking, nature, writing, but we will be
- [Architecture for All](https://thelearnedpig.org/architecture-for-all/6467) - Maria-Chiara Piccinelli is director of PiM.studio Architects in London. She is a strong believer in the importance of public spaces for a city to thrive, and in the crucial role nature plays within architecture. She began her career in Italy, and has since worked in Tokyo, Edinburgh and Paris with Kengo Kuma & Associates, and
- [Hildaland](https://thelearnedpig.org/hildaland/6437) - Hildaland is a hidden island, said to rise in the mist between two tides. When spotted by a sailor, they had to sail towards it without taking their eyes off it, for if they did it would vanish. There have been very few sightings of vanishing islands in recent years, however few have been looking.
- [Rewilding the Exhibition](https://thelearnedpig.org/rewind-rewild-rewilding-the-exhibition/6417) - When artist Beatrice Searle approached me about co-curating an exhibition and symposium responding to the rewilding movement, I was struck by the potential richness of the topic. I had only met Beatrice once, to chat about her project For the Journey and Return, which I had written about for a magazine. Since then, we have
- [Noticing the Invisible](https://thelearnedpig.org/noticing-the-invisible/6370) - In cities, we don’t usually see polluted air in front of our eyes, but its impact may still be felt inside our lungs. According to Open Air Laboratories at Imperial College, "In contrast to the visible smogs that affected cities in the past, much of the air pollution in the UK today is largely invisible
- [The same scene (nightish)](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-same-scene-nightish/6398) - James Sanders is taking part in Radical Landscapes: Innovation in Landscape and Language Art at The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington, Devon from 23rd March to 22nd April 2019. www.singingapplepress.com In support of the exhibition, The Learned Pig's Spring 2019 editorial season is devoted to Radical Landscapes.
- [Editorial: Radical Landscapes](https://thelearnedpig.org/editorial-radical-landscapes/6247) - Radical Landscapes takes its title from Harriet Tarlo’s seminal collection of British ecopoetries The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011) - a collection that came out in the penultimate year of my PhD devoted to Reading and Writing with a Tree: Practising “Nature Writing” as Enquiry, which was itself a radical,
- [Last Glacial Maximum](https://thelearnedpig.org/last-glacial-maximum/6311) - We often look to the past in order to understand the present. Those in northern Britain who engage in such an activity will eventually encounter an impenetrable wall of ice. In the deep-time cycles of cold and warm, stadial and interstadial, scientists call this most recent freezing episode the ‘Last Glacial Maximum’. It is the
- [The Land Incanted](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-land-incanted/6304) - The words “incanted” and “enchanted” share the same etymological root. An incantation is defined as “the use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic” also “a written or recited formula of words designed to produce a particular effect” To walk out into any wilderness; to become
- [Clouting](https://thelearnedpig.org/clouting/6297) - December It takes two years off their life, if they have lambs when they’re shearlings, if they’re going to live on the fells. Not much of the thin wintery daylight filters through the half-open door, and the straw on the floor lends a glow to the place. The barn is chilly and has
- [Editorial: Tuin Stemmen (Garden Voices)](https://thelearnedpig.org/editorial-tuin-stemmen-garden-voices/5963) - Situated in the small town of Hummelo in the east of the Netherlands is the private garden of the renown Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf, that poignantly reflects his usual loosely planted meadow style. The surrounding landscape is however a characteristic polder: flat and wet. Walking into the garden of Oudolf is like entering a
- [The Look Away](https://thelearnedpig.org/richard-skelton-look-away/5799) - Although I cannot see them, I know they are out there. Hare. Fox. Raven. Each waiting to play their part. - Richard Skelton, The Look Away A sense of ominous foreboding pervades The Look Away, the debut novel from Richard Skelton, musician, poet, and co-founder, along with Autumn Richardson, of Corbel Stone
- [Scrub](https://thelearnedpig.org/scrub/6322) - Beyond the chain-link fence of my primary school, across the alleyway into town, was a land of fascination. We called it the ‘waste ground’ and I’d wander there looking for treasures among the broken fireplaces and scuffed concrete. Garden survivors rose from the cracks and dust: snapdragons, evening primrose, mullein. This was suburban south-west London.
- [Nature Studies](https://thelearnedpig.org/olive-senior-nature-studies/5835) - Plants Plants are deceptive. You see them there looking as if once rooted they know their places; not like animals, like us always running around, leaving traces. Yet from the way they breed (excuse me!) and twine, from their exhibitionist and rather prolific nature, we must infer a sinister not to say imperialistic
- [The Garden as Form](https://thelearnedpig.org/michael-marder-garden-as-form/5821) - This is not your garden-variety reflection on gardens. It is, in fact, extremely difficult to think about gardens, at a carefully calibrated distance thinking requires, because our minds are awash with positive, sentimental, and nostalgically inflected cultural associations with these cultivated, carefully manicured green spaces. Forests connote danger and darkness, disorientation and wild life, both
- [Space Shifters](https://thelearnedpig.org/space-shifters/6219) - The smell of engine oil lingers sharply in my nostrils, hours after I have left the vertiginous room of Richard Wilson’s 20:50, the final coup de théâtre in the Hayward Gallery’s Space Shifters exhibition. My mind keeps returning to the glassy, treacherous surface of the oil, which fills the room to half-way up the wall
- [How to see climate through plants](https://thelearnedpig.org/how-to-see-climate-through-plants/5881) - Sensory-visual notes across three greenhouse rooms at Brooklyn’s Botanical Gardens This past August in Berlin, I joined 10 other Perennial Institute participants for an all-day excursion to the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Gardens as part of a week-long programme together exploring creativity through the lens of plants. After touring the garden’s extensive greenhouses, the artist Shota Nakamura
- [The Garden Dystopia](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-garden-dystopia/5975) - The dull necessity of weeding arises, because every healthy plant is a racist and an imperialist; every daisy (even) wishes to establish for itself an Empire on which the sun never sets. — Ian Hamilton Finlay In one of his short stories, Dolce notte (Sweet night), the Italian writer and poet Dino Buzzati
- [Growing in Greece](https://thelearnedpig.org/growing-in-greece/6009) - A-1 Publishers introduces its publications on Moria Refugee Camp: two selections The garden is alive, taking root. As the plants grow, they meet other travellers. Some come here to talk, calling those near and far in languages familiar and new. Others come here to recline, to relax during the hottest hours of the day amidst
- [Archiving garden sounds](https://thelearnedpig.org/archiving-garden-sounds/5999) - Every time I visit Australia, my home country, my senses are overwhelmed with the smell of native plants and the sound of native animals. The morning after I arrive, I am usually woken by a fury of local bird going about their morning ritual, perched in a tree in the garden just outside my window.
- [Pig Dreams Pig Life](https://thelearnedpig.org/pig-dreams-pig-life/5683) - In some dreams we are dead. It is never a surprise. Life doesn't last long after all. Someone did ask, what is a life? Does it feel like something? Is it solid or a shadow? Comfortable? Forgiveable? 'A pig is an unlikely bird', grunted a pig. It couldn't speak the answers and it wanted to
- [Unravelling Gardens](https://thelearnedpig.org/unravelling-gardens/5871) - Along the Ijssel, a river that partly forms the border between the two eastern provinces Gelderland en Overijssel in the Netherlands, one can find a beautiful biodynamic garden known as De Oosterwaarde. For over a timespan of twenty-five years, its farmers have been growing all sorts of vegetables and have recently dedicated a part of
- [On the Edge [extract]](https://thelearnedpig.org/on-the-edge-extract/6036) - This is a little story of a garden that lies there, by night, when no one can see it and also at the first light of day The garden lies on an island The island in a sea Between two countries, two continents There, where the East begins and on the other side the West
- [The Book of Feral Flora [extract]](https://thelearnedpig.org/amanda-ackerman-book-feral-flora-extract/5851) - I planted a garden and removed the weeds because they were getting too tall and too abundant. Some were choking my other plants and some smelled of decaying spinach or mint. Then when summer came I noticed lichens (plants that eat light and nothing more) growing on the trunks of my fruit trees like tiny
- [Gardens Speak](https://thelearnedpig.org/gardens-speak/5861) - The Political Performance of Mourning Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation based on the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in gardens across Syria during the first two years of the uprising. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories,
- [Un(in)tended Garden](https://thelearnedpig.org/unintended-garden/5934) - Notes on that which grows without us Urbs en Horto – City in a Garden – that is my town’s motto. To its architects, this was a matter of greenspace and planned esplanades sprinkled throughout the sprawl of a relentless grid. To me, it is more a statement of symmetry, if not synonymity, in the
- [What is it like to be a pig?](https://thelearnedpig.org/francoise-wemelsfelder-carnevale-farm-animals-pig/5679) - Most people know little about the characters and habits of the farm animals that live around us, often hidden away from view in large industrial sheds. What are they like, how do they live? Through careful observation we can learn more. Take, for example pigs. Pigs are quite like dogs - friendly, playful, tactile, really
- [The Chernobyl Herbarium](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-chernobyl-herbarium/3265) - Chernobyl and Plant Life: Silent Witnessing It is incredibly difficult to talk and write about Chernobyl. No serious book on the subject has been able to dodge the task of thinking about the conditions of possibility for thinking in proximity to this theme or this scene. Still before commencing, a work on Chernobyl must first
- [Hic fuerunt dracones](https://thelearnedpig.org/hic-fuerunt-dracones/5412) - Scary Monsters I: mapping the landscape of monstrosity When early map-makers depicted the world, they filled in the familiar regions with exquisite detail – names, places and things thought to exist there, rich layers of imagery and knowledge that resonated with those viewing and using the charts. The unknown regions were an informational blank, a
- [We Were Strangers](https://thelearnedpig.org/richard-v-hirst-we-were-strangers/5785) - A friend of mine passed away a few months ago and, although we were never especially close, his death affected me deeply. For a time afterwards I found myself impelled, on my lunch breaks, to leave the office block in central Manchester where I work and spend an hour walking – briskly yet purposelessly –
- [Common Salt](https://thelearnedpig.org/sheila-ghelani-sue-palmer-common-salt/5775) - This is an instrument I have never seen before. A slender dark wooden box, one side opening to become a bellow, pushed back and forth in a solemn rhythm by the hand of the performer. It emits an uncompromising, steady monotone drone, which accompanies a sombre and melancholic chant: ‘This is a la……-ment’. Common Salt
- [The Gathering Cloud / An Ocean of Static](https://thelearnedpig.org/jr-carpenter/5626) - I write from Edinburgh, from a flat enveloped by the haar, a cold fog that comes in off the sea and whites out the world. The fog binds land with sea and sky. It feels like an apt place and time from which to respond, briefly, to two recent books by JR Carpenter - The
- [Unsent Letter to an Old Art Teacher](https://thelearnedpig.org/unsent-letter-old-art-teacher/5759) - Dear Adrian, I’m not drawing anymore. There, I’ve said it. I didn’t become an artist like you always said I could. I write stories now instead. I have always wanted to write a story for you in fact, but no matter how many times I try, or think of trying, I never seem to strike
- [Beggars, Sinners, and Barbeque](https://thelearnedpig.org/beggars-sinners-and-barbeque/5740) - Honeysuckles line the drive as you ramble down our old gravel road and pull into the front yard. Past the rose bushes and satsuma trees, the first thing you see is an oak stretching its great arms over the addition daddy built with his own two hands and a series of pickup trucks and beater
- [Broke-Down Fords and Angels](https://thelearnedpig.org/broke-down-fords-and-angels/5448) - Part I Dry Creek is where I grew up, but it isn’t my home, not really. It’s the place I went to school, where my family resides, the place I learned that belonging isn’t a thing you get just because you grow up somewhere. Dry Creek is the hole my mother got sick in and
- [How do we improve the lives of pigs?](https://thelearnedpig.org/how-do-we-improve-the-lives-of-pigs/5674) - Ever since the idea of ‘intensifying’ pig production began to be discussed there has been a lively debate surrounding the ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’ of taking pigs from outside and housing them indoors. Abigail Woodsi has written an historical account of the development of intensive pig production where she has drawn on records to display the
- [In pictures: Objects designed for pigs](https://thelearnedpig.org/objects-designed-for-pigs/5697) - Popcorn Piñata Pig Kerplunk Melon Mines House of Many Doors Fruit Machine Apple Barrel This is part of CARNEVALE, a collaborative art-science project that explores animal welfare questions and the enthusiasm of pigs for investigative play. Click to see
- [VIDEO: Pigs at Play](https://thelearnedpig.org/video-pigs-at-play/5721) - This is part of CARNEVALE, a collaborative art-science project that explores animal welfare questions and the enthusiasm of pigs for investigative play. Click to see the rest.
- [Carnevale](https://thelearnedpig.org/andrea-roe-carnevale/5666) - On the morning of April 21st, my phone showed several missed calls. My colleague Cath had been burgled in the early hours. We spoke briefly as she waited for the police to arrive, and then a text came through, 'The car's gone, I'm catching the bus.' I text back, 'Forget it, we can postpone'. She
- [Keep the Ink Moving](https://thelearnedpig.org/maxim-peter-griffin-keep-ink-moving/5585) - The art of Maxim Peter Griffin attunes itself to the spirit of a place. Or is it spirits? His work taps the frequencies that thrum, seldom heard, through the worlds we inhabit: not only the mundane technologies of contemporary existence (the overhead crackle of electricity cables, the whirr of the motorway, the view through the
- [Finley Styles](https://thelearnedpig.org/finley-styles/5648) - Conceptual artist, painter and writer, Finley Styles, was born in Gosport, Hampshire, England on August 15, 1972. The son of market-trader parents, Styles proved academically gifted despite a shoddy school attendance record. From the age of twelve, he would regularly skip high school and, later, 6th form college to look after his parents’ market stall,
- [Ignaz Semmelweis and Anthropogenic Global Warming](https://thelearnedpig.org/ignaz-semmelweis-and-anthropogenic-global-warming/2490) - Mortality rates in mothers from childbirth in Europe were shockingly high during the mid-19th century. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician working in the General Hospital of Vienna, was curious as to why the medical students’ obstetrician clinic had a mortality rate over five times higher than the trainee midwives’ clinic within the same hospital. His
- [Rethinking Mythogeography](https://thelearnedpig.org/rethinking-mythogeography/5609) - I first came across Phil Smith in Walking, Writing and Performance, in which he appears as ‘The Crab Man’, an alter ego also credited as one of the contributors to 2010’s Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways: a collection of fragmentary narratives that construct and deconstruct an approach to walking as an artistic practice, a
- [Natural Selection](https://thelearnedpig.org/andy-holden-peter-holden-natural-selection/5553) - Freud would have loved this exhibition. Ostensibly Natural Selection – a collaboration between artist Andy Holden and his father, ornithologist Peter Holden – is about birds, nests and eggs. It’s actually about art, sex and death. As a philosophy undergraduate I was lucky enough be taught by the phenomenologist Dermot Moran. Phenomenology, he explained in
- [Why You Shouldn’t Follow Poets on Twitter](https://thelearnedpig.org/why-you-shouldnt-follow-poets-on-twitter/847) - Reading collaborations Between poet and poet I think how does this work What do they do how do they Talk to each other without Getting confused One of the poets is someone I’ve never heard of before I like his poem it’s about England and America and Yard sales and tat And memories Containing culture
- [Lives, Loves and Loss at Fenton House](https://thelearnedpig.org/lives-loves-loss-fenton-house/3959) - The silvery tinkling of servants’ bells welcomes me into the house of merchant Joshua Gee. There’s a fire in the grate and sweet treats on offer in the Still Room where I’m handed a candle to illuminate the winter afternoon, a parchment inventory of household goods and a quill pen so that I may note
- [Murmuration of Starlings](https://thelearnedpig.org/murmuration-starlings/3001) - A huge mass of black sweeps across the sky; surging, swirling and constantly changing form. This is a murmuration of starlings, an extraordinary natural phenomenon seen in the autumn and winter months. Such spectacular sights used to be more common when the birds flocked in greater numbers – in 1799, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- [Ishmael House](https://thelearnedpig.org/ishmael-house/5542) - Ishmael House stands along a small stretch of gravel road leading up a hill away from our town. A two-storey granite brick sentry that appears, alongside an old and dying ash tree as no more than an accent stretching out onto desolate sky. The boundary, not that it is needed, is a fence that seems
- [Ghosts on the Shore](https://thelearnedpig.org/ghosts-on-the-shore/5527) - Identities – of people and of places – form slowly over time, through the sedimentary accretion of multiple overlapping layers. Even the oldest or most deeply buried stories never entirely disappear. Sometimes it takes the archaeologist, or the psychoanalyst, to do a little digging. Paul Scraton’s Ghosts on the Shore enacts a sustained process of
- [The Old Weird Albion](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-old-weird-albion/5514) - Histories and hauntings of the English South When I think of the South Downs, I see a watercolour of Beachy Head by Eric Ravilious. A chalky white cliff illuminated by a lighthouse with an ominous raincloud hovering above it. I remember climbing to the top of the Devil’s Dyke to look at the pastoral Constable
- [Road to New](https://thelearnedpig.org/road-to-new/5458) - Part III As we drove across interstate ten towards Baton Rouge, I wasn’t sure if I was saying hello or goodbye. Hello to the miles and miles of Louisiana marsh I hadn’t seen in years. Hello to the hope of something new glimmering in the back of my mind. And goodbye to pretty much everything
- [Forever Changed in a Second](https://thelearnedpig.org/forever-changed-in-a-second/5455) - Part II She sat in the waiting room of the family doctor watching the children play in the wallpaper across the room. Her eyes followed as boys and girls stacked blocks, rolled balls, and carried bright red balloons from scene to scene. Praying that if she stared long enough, the pounding in her chest would
- [The chimaera](https://thelearnedpig.org/chimaera/5428) - Scary Monsters III: collapsing space If you had walked into one of the princely Wunderkammern or cabinets of curiosity of seventeenth-century Europe, you would have been assailed by the wealth of objects covering walls, ceilings, shelves and probably floors; naturalia, exotica and artificialia arranged in strange juxtapositions, decorative arrays and obscure taxonomies. The visual impression
- [The Night Horse and the Holy Baboon](https://thelearnedpig.org/night-horse-holy-baboon/5390) - Victoria Rance and I met at Newcastle University in 1980. We were studying Fine Art and English Literature respectively and have remained friends ever since. We share an interest in psychology, Jungian ideas and the power of mythology. Victoria Rance’s latest exhibition, The Night Horse and The Holy Baboon, at The Cello Factory Waterloo, was
- [The Unending Cycle](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-unending-cycle/5376) - For Ayesha I look into Haruki’s eyes and discover something that disturbs me profoundly. There is a familiarity. In the aftermath of The Demolition Of My Construct (my break-up), I must admit I am suffering from a fear of intimacy with anyone, anything. Even these fluffy felines, Haruki and Mowgli. What I see in his
- [The Second Body](https://thelearnedpig.org/daisy-hildyard-second-body/5288) - At 6 a.m. on a Thursday morning in November it was completely dark outside, but the butcher’s shop was strip-lit and the raw meat area was full of busy young men. It was difficult to see exactly what they were doing – the men were large and they were moving quickly in a small crowded
- [Green Boots](https://thelearnedpig.org/green-boots/5080) - The water falls on her head, on her face, around her ears. She sits on the floor and it falls encasing her in the only shelter she has found in this house. She feels safe, she must be, no one can demand anything from her while she´s in the shower. Her back hurts. Her feet,
- [Wild Alphabet: The Wolf in Irish Poetry](https://thelearnedpig.org/wild-alphabet-wolf-irish-poetry/4386) - The final wolves in Ireland were wiped out some time during the eighteenth century, outliving the wolf in England by almost three hundred years. The process of their extinction, exacerbated and even engineered by the English colonisation of Ireland, bears multiple parallels with the gradual diminishment of the Irish language, itself subjected to a sustained
- [Of Shadows](https://thelearnedpig.org/of-shadows/5199) - One Hundred Objects from the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic Effigies, pentacles, masks and charms. Robes and blades, crosses and cauldrons. The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall, is a treasure trove of magical objects and books dedicated to the history of British folk magic and other forms of popular spiritual belief. Photographer
- [Concrete Music - Artificial Plant - October](https://thelearnedpig.org/concrete-music-artificial-plant-october/5170) - Concrete Music over six foot lying on its back damp-worn sides as souvenirs of basement tenure unmoved to the top floor a sun-bleached face now that the upstairs neighbours are rubble ears within shouting distance. With shells, the BLOCK was returned to itself though imprecisely scythed; concrete lines don’t demarcate but are breached
- [Shopping centres, caves and the fate of us all](https://thelearnedpig.org/shopping-centres-caves-and-the-fate-of-us-all/5150) - If you leave Nottingham train station and head towards the centre of the city, you will eventually come up against a large brown wall barricading the city. Actually it is the backside, or front (it's hard to tell), of a shopping centre called Broadmarsh. Like a museum gift shop, the only way is through. I
- [The Cooked and the Half-Baked](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-cooked-and-the-half-baked/5107) - “The great press baron, Lord Northcliffe, used to tell his journalists that four subjects could be relied upon for abiding public interest: crime, love, money, and food. Only the last of these is fundamental and universal. Crime is a minority interest, even in the worst-regulated societies. It is possible to imagine an economy without
- [INN I DE DYPE SKOGERS FAVN](https://thelearnedpig.org/epigenetic-memory/5121) - Epigenetic Memory in the Spruce Tree Foresti covers 37% of Norway’s combined area, almost half of which is made up by the tree species called Norway spruce. The rest consists of mostly pine and birch. It is therefore only natural that spruce forests should feature so heavily on black metal album covers and lyrics. The
- [The CleanMeat Revolution](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-cleanmeat-revolution/5098) - In The Box Gallery at the heart of We The Curious – Bristol’s centre for science and technology – is David Lisser’s exhibition, ‘The CleanMeat Revolution’. From the vantage point of a fictional future, the exhibition looks back at the period around 2030–2080. The show presents artefacts excavated from an imagined past, documentation of protests
- [Performance for the Anti-hero](https://thelearnedpig.org/patrick-jacobs/5088) - New York-based artist Patrick Jacobs unfolds a carefully crafted stage that invite us to seek wonderment in both natural and unnatural landscapes that might easily be overlooked. Painstakingly constructed models display different species of fungi or weeds in the foreground. Each leaf and blade of grass is shaped to situate a humble scene. Jacobs imbues
- [Mildew](https://thelearnedpig.org/mildew/3038) - Never forgive, I said that morning just as I do every morning, by the window, waiting for dawn. Never forgive. Whom? Constanza? Which one of them? Never forgive her, the young Constanza, or myself, the old one? I did not know, all I knew was: I was never to forgive. ‘It hasn’t been that long,
- [Extinction and the Image](https://thelearnedpig.org/extinction-and-the-image/3908) - Animals. The non-human kind. They are everywhere in an increasingly virtual world and more often not there in reality. Our eyes and minds seem instinctively to search out and recognise animal forms. Whether we experience a physical encounter or one mediated through the image, animals are insistent to us in their familiarity. So too in
- [Were](https://thelearnedpig.org/were/4372) - We have been taught to believe that werewolves only change into their cursed form on full-moon nights, but perhaps – and this is speculation – on nights without full moons, the animal shape, which is the cursed form, still awakens within the werewolf, yet it cannot be seen, only sensed. Maybe werewolves spend any night
- [Stone Ghosts](https://thelearnedpig.org/stone-ghosts/4356) - On Mount Mitsumine in Oku-Chichibu, some 1,000 metres above sea level and surrounded by forest, is Mitsumine-Jinja – the most famous wolf shrine in Japan. The wolf in Japanese folklore is a powerful presence but, unlike in traditions elsewhere, it is a benign figure revered as a messenger of the spirits, a protector of crops
- [Who'll Guard the Horse?](https://thelearnedpig.org/wholl-guard-the-horse/4412) - for Tim Cope, and his horseback journey from Mongolia to Hungary. Sheered pig fat for the dog, and in his eating, a spirit passing continental drift toward another day revolving. The dog that is protection, the dog that is the anti-crisis. The dog descendent from what is firecracking in temporary fear from
- [Editorial: Wolf Crossing](https://thelearnedpig.org/editorial-wolf-crossing/4451) - Look into the eyes of the wolf. What does it see? On 29th August 2016, shortly after the announcement of Steve Bannon’s appointment as Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO, The New Yorker ran a cartoon by Paul Noth. It shows a large billboard standing in a field of grazing sheep. Upon it is a wolf
- [Things She Doesn’t Know](https://thelearnedpig.org/things-doesnt-know/4290) - When she was growing up, Lily kept a list of things that she didn’t know. She was big on lists then – she liked knowing the top ten most valuable beanie babies, or the five most destructive earthquakes in history. She liked knowing things, and she liked not knowing things, and she wanted to keep
- [Shadow Sisters](https://thelearnedpig.org/joanna-pallaris/4766) - A pack of dogs, a suggestion of a transformation, a woman in a wild place. A wolf. In the analogue photography of Joanna Pallaris, the time, as Hamlet had it, is out of joint. Double exposures make visible the formation of a rock face through the head of a dog. A woman's face - the
- [Wolf yollez](https://thelearnedpig.org/wolf-yollez/4930) - ‘We’re not far from wolves.’ - Deleuze and Guattari, ‘1914: One or Several Wolves?’ Human-canine relationships are some of the most conceptually disordered and uncertain of interspecies relationships, precisely because the history of domestication is so long and so complex. The type of canine perspective offered by contemporary writers such as Donna Haraway
- [The Time of the White Wolf](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-time-of-the-white-wolf/4406) - It snowed for thirty years and no-one knew when the snow would end. The old people could remember the times before the snow, But none of the young ones had ever seen the sun rise or set or blaze at midday. None of them had traced the patterns made by the stars in the night
- [from Parchment, Scalpel, Rock: Howling](https://thelearnedpig.org/from-parchment-scalpel-rock-howling/4877) - a wolf is a tunnel into the earth ...... full of teeth (and what should I call a sideways stalag mmm-/t-ite?) not just the wind howling through the steppes’ hollow torso? a zero-sum game? an eremophage without organs? the little bumps ‘become’ horns......the horns become penises the penises teeth ...... the teeth : skeletons
- [Blood Ties](https://thelearnedpig.org/blood-ties/4922) - There was a girl who met up with a wolf, back in Distant Time, when wolves were human. The wolf wanted her for his wife, even though he had two wives already. When he took her home, his two wives smelled her and knew she was human. After a while she had a child –
- [A Wolf, Crossing](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-wolf-crossing/4907) - When night falls in the Charente, the inhabitants of its rural villages retreat to their homes. They lock their doors and pull iron-hinged timber shutters over every window. Pale sandstone walls, grey with age, cracked and pitted, their seams of lime mortar dried to dust, become as impenetrable as medieval keeps. In the dark, you
- [Running with the Wolves](https://thelearnedpig.org/running-with-the-wolves/4748) - When I was a kid I wanted to be a wolf. I think it started when I read Jack London: White Fang and Call of the Wild set loose all kinds of fantasies and imaginings in my young mind that developed into a full-blown desire to swap my human skin for a wolfish replacement. Every
- [Phenomenology of the Feral](https://thelearnedpig.org/phenomenology-of-the-feral/4843) - After the Meat Tree I Man’s best friend, woman’s best friend are has a jay, and mere has an add. I flower mere and he follows me that was made of wood and flowers and see, it is pronounced mer as the french for sea not mere lie down you are drunk. Remember
- [Significant Others](https://thelearnedpig.org/significant-others/4635) - If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. - Ludwig Wittgenstein I am animal and so are you, but where do we start and end, and could we, ever, converse as equals amongst other animals? It is as much a question about Us as about Them. As early as the
- [The World Without Us](https://thelearnedpig.org/deborah-westmancoat/4314) - Deborah Westmancoat is a British contemporary painter based in Somerset, UK. She has a long term interest in alchemy and the philosophical sciences and how they help us to understand landscape and our place within it, particularly how the traditionally held metaphysical stages of alchemy: nigredo (blackness), albedo (whiteness), citrinitas (yellowing) and rubredo (redness) might
- [How to Make a Map for Ethnic Cleansing](https://thelearnedpig.org/how-to-make-a-map-for-ethnic-cleansing/4685) - . . . . . . . . . .an elegy Demark colored lines fluid as the Red sea and place names for distance.. . . . . . . . . .Cherokee–– We are a region where herds wait, swallowing grass like fire. . . . . . . . . .Seminole––
- [Charmed](https://thelearnedpig.org/charmed/4480) - She calls him from a thousand miles distance – sends forth an invisible cord from her edge of cliff to his edge of existence. She calls him in autumn storms, in summer stillness, grooves a new migration route, moons him towards her for tide after tide. Some claim, with disdain, that she practised with
- [Cae’r Blaidd, or Field of the Wolf](https://thelearnedpig.org/caer-blaidd-or-field-of-the-wolf/4892) - The last wolf died in this place but the hour of the wolf remains and the wolves call for us, call for you calling haunting us with their calling calling for us over and over again It is the time when we cross over as some people say of the passing away in the
- [Hamrammr](https://thelearnedpig.org/hamrammr/4868) - Úlfhéðnar in my wolf-skin, I am smuggled beneath this fearsome hide. Sneaksome, bristlepad varúlfur, I must stay concealed, keep my woman-ness below the scenting of the men. They would smell my sex and think me weak, think me there for the mating, the taking, the ruling, the putting me in my place. Bottom of
- [Wolf](https://thelearnedpig.org/wolf/4872) - Snow covered the town, and murmurs. Unease, downcast eyes, a rumour you were back in the holding where the song thrush is mute, where a path spills like yarn to the clearing. The fetid black leaf and the bracken. The crackle underfoot. The weird cabin. It gaped from the white like a lunatic’s face.
- [The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner](https://thelearnedpig.org/rottweilers-guide-dog-owner/4855) - - adapted from SJ Fowler If you were a fruit, what fruit would you be? Black banana, fruit flies, les ananas ne parlent pas, (a little song of two children learning french on Canadian TV). In middle school, the chair in the crypt. The stack of cryptic poems high enough to use as a
- [Gilfaethwy](https://thelearnedpig.org/gilfaethwy/4857) - The pirate is part magician and part thief. With all the gauze and white tape, I know the left side of his face better than the right side. Pirates, like werewolves, live tied to the moon. The dark break in the white plaster is the negative of the full moon rising. here Gilfaethwy gills
- [Shortening the Candle's Wick II](https://thelearnedpig.org/shortening-candles-wick-ii/4829) - Over the wet alders the wind gallops along the road raging, swinging a club. Then tired out in the high pines’ lap like a child after crying still sobs. Wet, the colour of tree trunks, lifting up her skirt’s hem, the old woman quietly goes. Gathered from roadside bilberry shrubs in her billy can the
- [Shortening the Candle's Wick I](https://thelearnedpig.org/shortening-the-candles-wick-i/4816) - Realisation I lie in the rich grass a blissful ringing in my head. Distant voices bring me food the way ants brought gold to a king in olden times. There are two horseflies. There may even be a snake around here somewhere. In any case there is an old mill-pond and downstream are some
- [The girl and the half wolf sound](https://thelearnedpig.org/girl-half-wolf-sound/4750) - Release the pack into their whorling wolfscream. A lightning-cut electrified cable of a scream, sparking to a panicked dance. Let its coiled metal whips snap out and back in thwarted reach. I am just a jogger in a forest with racing huskies hoarse behind me. I lived to tell this tale and all the
- [Coyote](https://thelearnedpig.org/coyote/4800) - All aboard, climb inside! Back of the van! Get back, Loretta! Only 1500 miles to the promised land! Farm jobs, construction, cleaning, meatpacking, don't bleed when you're cut or you go right back! Need papers? Housing? A lawyer? A clue? My cousin, he'll hook you up. Fenrir. We grew up together. Wolf, coyote, closer than
- [Coyote Journal](https://thelearnedpig.org/mike-salter-coyote-journal/4803) - I was raised by a nanny for most of my life. She was an illegal immigrant from Guatemala that made it to Los Angeles, and then into my family home. She was kind and loving, and knew how to get me to be quiet when it was time for me to sleep. She would say
- [Parakeets and Purity](https://thelearnedpig.org/parakeets-and-purity/1934) - Because the land, the country, is such a focus of horticulture, there are important moments when its extraordinary fetishisation has connected it with movements of the extreme right: rhetorically, to simplify, the land becomes the fatherland. George McKay, Radical Gardening I live in north-west London. Sitting in the living room
- [Little Death Waltz](https://thelearnedpig.org/little-death-waltz/4675) - In the heart of hearths there is her, she wolf . . . . . . . .who, linking arms with your first-born, . . . . . . . .who, shedding dresses, crossing breeds with . . . . . . . .leading him on to . . . . . . .
- [Matriarchs, Monsters and Feral Children](https://thelearnedpig.org/matriarchs-monsters-and-feral-children/4714) - Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein’s monster. The Capitoline Wolf. Mary Shelley. Four names, four figures forming a strange kind of family, if we can call it that. Perhaps better to say, ‘a pack’. Each is linked to other in a lineage of imagination, creation, or birth. There is a shared marginality. Each was believed somehow to have
- [Borders](https://thelearnedpig.org/borders/4699) - On the Eve we eat menudo. Onion mimics moon from a small bowl, glinted fractals of itself. Cilantro’s diced flesh lingers in the air. Bolilllos wait, steam rising. We all wait. I have inherited this––my life on this schism of wild land, purple montañas littered by desert primrose, a muddy river and barbed wire
- [Rooting](https://thelearnedpig.org/rooting/4704) - . . . . . . . . . .Chihuahua Desert Blood slid to soil and our roots splintered wide like needle-edged leaves of agave. We can never escape this desert root, dry to core and apt for bitter survival, snide thirst. A cacti can be barren then, overnight, sprout flame petals, but
- [Apples & Other Languages](https://thelearnedpig.org/apples-other-languages/4649) - Camilla Nelson’s words bring things to life. ‘Stir this miracle to waking,’ she says, in the first poem in Apples & Other Languages, a signal of the alchemy of ideas to follow. Here, the intangible and the inanimate take on new form: windpipes ‘sound themselves furiously’, a song ‘breaks the ice we stand on'. But
- [almost like almost](https://thelearnedpig.org/almost-like-almost/4279) - almost like almost . . . . . . . he said in land there is a line around a wolf within is other and awe social grace packed who wills foul and unrest . . . . . . . when the chaste self ills the line extends skin to no where inside
- [She-Wolf, Kauttua 1963](https://thelearnedpig.org/she-wolf/4434) - For three nights the she-wolf skirted the village. Must be desperate, to leave the forest, her cubs must be starving. The men oiled their guns, waxed their skis, took their time, an easy target this one, no hurry. When she howled, her ahh oww, oww, owwww sliced through the still air, sliced right through the
- [To howl](https://thelearnedpig.org/ᚦeotan/4494) - Inspired by and sourced from 'Ash' by Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton, in Relics (Broughton Mills: Corbel Stone Press, 2013). Image credit: John Morgan, Ruins of Drosgol Farmstead, at the foot of Pumlumon (Plynlimon) on the banks of Nant-y-moch Reservoir, near Aberystwyth Part of The Learned Pig’s Wolf Crossing editorial season, spring/summer 2017.
- [Corbel Stone Press: On Translation](https://thelearnedpig.org/corbel-stone-press/4586) - Run by Autumn Richardson and Richard Skelton, Corbel Stone Press is one of the most distinctive small presses around today, whose work spans books and journals, pamphlets, booklets and music. Their focus is on landscape, nature, and ideas of place - mostly through poetry, but also across painting and drawing, botanical illustration, sound and song.
- [Interview with a Wolf](https://thelearnedpig.org/interview-with-a-wolf/4564) - Once upon a time, there was a magical fairy-tale world where marvellous and unbelievable events occurred and, as a general rule, everyone lived happily ever after, unless of course, you’re a wolf. In which case, these marvellous and unbelievable events were only marvellous in the sense of something to be wondered at, and unbelievable in
- [Big Bad Wolf](https://thelearnedpig.org/big-bad-wolf/4571) - I'm in love with a big bad wolf. It's causing a bit of a fuss, but when I saw him on Tinder I knew he was the one; there was nothing left to discuss. My brothers told me to dump him, or they'd jump him. Send him back up North. They would get me
- [Tame](https://thelearnedpig.org/tame/4427) - the skin peels off my face .................Cheap tears of bone organs collapsing, unlace then stitch ligaments. moving spinal columns .................I watch my body remove my inner symptoms then cover up pushing against stretched leather .................Cut me up for fun in amongst the forest heather displace the poison red staining pale white .................Teeth elongating reaching
- [Open Call: Wolf Crossing](https://thelearnedpig.org/open-call-wolf-crossing/3890) - In Finland there is a line around the city: susiraja, the wolf border. Within is law and order: shopping malls and social security. Beyond the susiraja lie the wilds and the wolves – just 200 at the last count. Who will howl in the forests when the last wolf departs? The susiraja may be inviolable
- [Gordon Cheung - Unknown Knowns](https://thelearnedpig.org/gordon-cheung-known-unknowns/4506) - Unknown Knowns is Gordon Cheung’s third exhibition at Edel Assanti, London. The exhibition’s title is drawn from Slavoj Zizek’s observation that Donald Rumsfeld’s theory of knowledge omitted a crucial fourth category: unknown knowns – the things we don’t realise we know; the unconscious beliefs and prejudices that determine our perceptions and actions. Unknown Knowns continues
- [Popular Astronomy](https://thelearnedpig.org/popular-astronomy/4420) - Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907) was not a practical astronomer, but wrote a number of important books and articles that explained existing astronomical research to the general public. Winter, the ghosts of fuchsias sigh; in the frost, the fox chews mouse-tails. I step in each of my father's foot-prints as we carry the telescope
- [The Light Comes in the Name of the Voice](https://thelearnedpig.org/light-comes-name-voice/4423) - "The light comes in the name of the voice." – Jeanne d'Arc, as quoted by Anne Carson in Variations on the Right to Remain Silent And in the end, only this moment. First the ash-pile, white, fine wood-ash, grimy ice, a grey noon. The pigs. Frost lacing the leaves. The girl with itchy
- [The Way of Florida](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-way-of-florida/4469) - Russell Persson's The Way of Florida is a compact, driving, rhythmical work - a novel, but quite unlike most. The book revisits the ill-fated Narváez expedition of the sixteenth century, which saw a group of some 600 Spanish, Greek, and Portuguese explorers arrive on the coast of Florida intent on establishing preliminary colonial settlements and
- [Zone de sécurité temporaire](https://thelearnedpig.org/anne-marie-filaire-mucem/4238) - There is a strange but commonly used French phrase with no precise parallel in English: entre chien et loup – between dog and wolf. It refers to twilight, when the light has dimmed and one can no longer differentiate between a wolf and a dog (as if it were once so simple to tell the
- [Mhadaidh, Maddy, Mad](https://thelearnedpig.org/mhadaidh-maddy-mad/4263) - Corrie nam Fiadh, Deer Corrie the gentleness .........of browsing deer Allt a’ Mhadaidh, Wolf Burn will never .........dissolve the wolf Some place-names refer to one-off events, like pegs stuck in the ground of memory. Others reckon the catastrophe of species loss over centuries. In his pioneering study of the influence humans have on
- [Asterisk](https://thelearnedpig.org/asterisk/4306) - High electric masts broadcast the turnpike’s hyphenations: Flat, dashed boxy. Their bold yellow glow adumbrating distance, blinking smaller then vanishing. The slow-going traffic signals our taking it for granted, this mousetrap of freeways diverging to crowded intersection, their outer limits disappearing into darkness. While the avenues less taken are singled out and swarmed, I reassess
- [Crossing Over](https://thelearnedpig.org/crossing-over/4397) - Late November in Malaga is beautiful and easy: sun, cloudless skies and highs in the upper twenties. The olive trees bask in the late late heat, the Mickey-Mouse-head-shaped cactuses bloom with geranium-pink blossoms and the tourists still soak up rays outside cafés like solar batteries. But drive two hours inland to Granada and the temperature
- [In Bocca al Lupo: Three Mountain Walks](https://thelearnedpig.org/bocca-al-lupo-three-mountain-walks/4154) - 28th February 2013 1st March 2014 I slid across the leather seats as the car swung around the obstacles on the track; pulled forwards and pushed back as the steep slopes were tackled. The headlights carved tunnels of green from the forest, the keys rattled against themselves and the
- [LEAD](https://thelearnedpig.org/lead/4200) - If, as Rebecca Solnit has argued, “science is how capitalism knows the world”, then it should not be surprising that, as new auction records are broken seemingly every week, it is to technology that the business of authentication must increasingly turn. The studied perusal of the expert is no longer enough; now it is the
- [A Hole at the Core](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-hole-at-the-core/4177) - I re-encounter the incised apple indirectly, in the mirror-image. Glancing across rows of burnished half-pint beer glasses, their reflections bounced back and forth on opposing glass surfaces, it is on display: residue from an earlier foray into bar preparation, when my back was turned to Carlsberg drinkers and finickerty Guinness drinkers, who verily pour the
- [Notes on Being a Father, and a Son](https://thelearnedpig.org/notes-father-son/4091) - It was a curious experience to read for the first time, several years ago, a biography of my late father, a well-known Australian author. It was even more so when I heard the biographer talk on the radio “about getting into other people’s lives who are not there to tell the story themselves… about staying
- [Great and Small Mythologies](https://thelearnedpig.org/great-and-small-mythologies/4060) - Book VI of Virgil’s Aeneid, released last year in a posthumously published translation by Seamus Heaney, is concerned, amongst other things, with the inadequacies of art. In it, Virgil describes a mural painted by Daedalus, the mythological artist, which fails in its attempts to represent the death of his son, Icarus. In Heaney’s translation: .........................................................................Twice
- [Chroma Hunt](https://thelearnedpig.org/chroma-hunt/3970) - From cave drawings to medieval tapestry, classical pottery to Rubens or Rembrandt, the hunt has provided artists with powerful subject matter for thousands of years. Much of this power has to do with power: the physical prowess of early humanity, the great gods of Graeco-Roman mythology, or the wealth of the landed aristocracy of the
- [A New Map of Berlin](https://thelearnedpig.org/new-map-berlin-january-2017/4045) - I had no intention of bicycling in the snow, this winter. I started riding just seven months ago to stave off the inevitable corrosion of old age. I have no tolerance of cold. I grew up on the beaches of Sydney, where anything below 15ºC is thought of as gelid. In Berlin, the average winter
- [Sparrow Come Back Home](https://thelearnedpig.org/sparrow-come-back-home/4037) - Sparrow Come Back Home, Carmel Buckley and Mark Harris’ exhibition at the ICA, examines a reflective side of the display of archive as monument. Taking place in the Fox Reading Room, a space where archival materials are at the heart of each show, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a visual library, a silent record
- [Unrelated](https://thelearnedpig.org/unrelated/4027) - A young woman slams her naked body furiously against a wall, again, again, and again, so brutally that I have to remind myself to breathe. Only moments before, I’d carefully sidestepped her as she lay on the floor, unclothed, motionless, and with her eyes shut. I filed into the studio along with the rest of
- [Darwin's Polar Bear](https://thelearnedpig.org/darwins-polar-bear/4005) - Many people may be aware that the beaks of Galápagos “finches” (in fact, the islands’ mockingbirds) helped Charles Darwin to develop his ideas about evolution. But few people realize that the polar bear too, informed his grand theory. Letting his fancy run wild, in On the Origin of Species, the man used to thinking in
- [Traces – Lives, Loves and Loss](https://thelearnedpig.org/traces-london-lives-loves-loss/3940) - “Every story, however hidden, leaves a trace…” A company specialising in site-specific, immersive experiences, Traces brings together contemporary art, theatre and design with old and disused buildings in order to reimagine the long-lost stories of the past. A collaboration between furniture and spatial designer Donna Walker and Talulah Mason, whose expertise is in sets
- [A Dys-Praxic Sketchbook](https://thelearnedpig.org/dyspraxia-a-dys-praxic-sketchbook/3642) - I used to think that the only skill I had was drawing. It was only much later that I realised that it was simply the only skill that I had experienced difficulty in acquiring and yet had not given up on. It was also my only physical skill. Under most of the circumstances I encountered
- [Lost in Fathoms](https://thelearnedpig.org/lost-in-fathoms/1623) - Stumbling dim across the surface of the earth: humanity. Our legacy not culture or religion or science, but ruin. Our lasting traces that of footprints, not brain waves. Is this what makes us unique? A geological force in our own right? Certainly this is the view announced in 2012 at the 34th International Geological Congress
- [Anais Tondeur - I.55](https://thelearnedpig.org/anais-tondeur-i-55/715) - Or, the girl who swallowed the remnants of a forest. “A century ago, a young girl swallowed a pencil.” So begins I.55, a beguiling new book by contemporary artist Anaïs Tondeur, which had its official launch at GV Art in December. Tondeur is not an artist who does things by halves, and the book’s launch
- [Being a Beast](https://thelearnedpig.org/being-a-beast/3879) - Mankind has celebrated a close connection with the animal kingdom since our Stone Age ancestors dressed in furs and painted bison on cave walls. Mythology abounds with tales of creatures which are half-man, half-beast, from werewolves to centaurs. In the transition from hunter-gatherers to city dwellers, we have gradually lost touch with the land, becoming
- [Open Call: Clean Unclean](https://thelearnedpig.org/open-call-clean-unclean/1668) - Cleanliness, they say, is close to godliness. And the pig has long resided in the realm of the unclean. Even today: “It’s like a pigsty in here!” – as if the pig has much choice in how he lives… More than ever do we feel the urgency of cleanliness: clean hands, clean homes, clean minds.
- [I, The Thing in the Margins](https://thelearnedpig.org/mark-peter-wright-i-the-thing-in-the-margins/2964) - It’s the sound that provides the first clue of something amiss. The loud, low growl of audio feedback fills a room already awash with bright green glare. Sitting upright in a shabby armchair is an inscrutable figure. Both feet rest evenly on the ground. Both arms rest evenly on the chair. Its head is turned
- [A New Map of Berlin](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-new-map-of-berlin-november-2016/3830) - I am an inexperienced cyclist. As far as possible, I avoid Berlin's main arteries and stick to the backstreets. Bike lanes constricted by car traffic, tram tracks and intrusion from roadworks and heavy construction make me nervous, so my routes are often haphazard interconnections of empty footpaths, public and corporate plätze, service alleys, old river
- [Art Angels / Property Guardians](https://thelearnedpig.org/artangel-reading-prison-art-angels-property-guardians/3678) - Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison On a bright morning at the beginning of September I joined members of the press on a visit to the former HM Prison Reading. The Grade II-listed Victorian prison has stood empty for just under three years since its closure in November 2013. But it has
- [Little Island Press](https://thelearnedpig.org/little-island-press/3841) - Little Island Press is an independent publisher of new and classic poetry, fiction and international literature in translation. Inspired by some of the amateur presses of the 1920s, Andrew Latimer founded Little Island Press in 2015. Its output spans three different series: Memento, which presents the work of overlooked modern poets; Transits, which offers poetry
- [A New Map of Berlin](https://thelearnedpig.org/new-map-berlin-october-2016/3773) - Fehrbelliner Strasse intersects the indefinite, porous border between the old East Berlin neighbourhoods of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Forming a T with the sloping green space of Volkspark am Weinbergweg, the street is lined with pretty late 19th-century altbauten that had survived artillery and aerial bombardment at the end of World War II, and featureless
- [Lines in the Ice](https://thelearnedpig.org/lines-in-the-ice/3792) - Human Marks in the Ice Ships fighting against a freezing sea. Masts and ropes caked in ice. Crews of men hauling sledges over crumpled and broken landscapes. These are the mental images conjured when many think of the Arctic and the history of its exploration by Europeans, Russians and Americans. However, this is not the
- [Archipelagos of Rest](https://thelearnedpig.org/rest-mile-end-art-pavilion/3808) - The God of Genesis had no use for islands; land rose from sea all at once, assured with purpose. Like cognition, the divine continent is quantifiably useful, brokering communal exchange and the consolidation of cultural routines, yet still – unapologetically – islands persist. These archipelagos, connected to and detached from the whole, seem emblematic of
- [Table of Contents (in the Form of a Sonnet) for an Imaginary Post-punk Poetry Chapbook](https://thelearnedpig.org/table-of-contents-in-the-form-of-a-sonnet-for-an-imaginary-post-punk-poetry-chapbook/3019) - 1. underground cellars, Experimental Trajectories. 2. La volonté de rupture ou la beauté radicale. 3. extensive rehearsals make (even) le moins que parfait perfect. 4. I Could Not Handwrite Any Longer. 5. the TYPEWRITER becomes an ACCORDION. 6. The Poet(ess) as a Cultural Machine. 7. Converting Ulysess into a quilt—A kind of Steve
- [from 'swims'](https://thelearnedpig.org/from-swims/3096) - swims is a long poem documenting wild swims across the UK. swims starts and end in Devon, my home county, moving through Somerset, Surrey, the Lake District, London, Wales and Brighton. Each swim is conceived of as an environmental action, testing ways individuals might effect environmental change. swims is an overall sequence of twelve swims,
- [The Future is the Past: Harwich, Essex](https://thelearnedpig.org/looking-essex-harwich/3503) - Harwich has a split personality. At the northeasternmost point of Essex, the old town is still laid out as the medieval port it once was, but it’s separated from the cranes at Harwich International Port situated a mile up the Stour river. For centuries it was a key access point to Europe: a “gateway”, when
- [Workers Hammer](https://thelearnedpig.org/workers-hammer/3401) - The following is an edited extract from the conversation between artist John Stark and anthropologist David Graeber, author of Debt, the first 5000 years and The Utopia of Rules. The conversation was originally published in the catalogue that accompanies DoL Po, Stark's solo show at Charlie Smith London, 20th May - 26th June 2016.
- [The Paper Zoo](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-paper-zoo/3721) - Choosing to draw: philosophy and aesthetics Whatever else the Romans may have done for us, teaching us to draw was not one of their gifts. The two great works of classical scholarship on animals were Aristotle’s History of Animals, and Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis historia. Neither Pliny nor his Greek predecessor included any illustrations in
- [Points of Departure - Estuary 2016](https://thelearnedpig.org/points-of-departure-estuary-2016/3698) - I love the fact that on the coast you can just travel along the edge until the next place. Knowing the way stops becoming an issue even though it isn’t always clear exactly where you are. Everything is continuous. The day that the summer finally breaks into thousands of tiny points of grey drizzle I
- [Fruiting Bodies in the Forest School](https://thelearnedpig.org/fruiting-bodies-forest-school/3612) - Fungi are unusual. They are easier to define through a process of elimination, by identifying what they are not. They are not animal, mineral or vegetable, but ‘fruiting bodies’, strange forms of life growing out of decay, with their own fecund vocabulary: hymenium, volva, universal veil, inner veil, sporangium, spore, apocethium. Since beginning my artist
- [Shorelines Festival 2013](https://thelearnedpig.org/shorelines-festival-2013/375) - The perennial danger of the small town literary festival is that it takes place solely within the confines of a conference centre / tent / town hall or other academic / municipal space. However well-advertised, accessible (geographically, financially) and welcoming, there is always then a potential for division between inside and outside. This becomes pronounced
- [Duelling Hagiographies: Mao and Modernism](https://thelearnedpig.org/duelling-hagiographies-mao-modernism/3577) - The world is yours as well as ours: a statement in which ancestry maintains a dialectic with reconstruction; engineered to mobilise disjunctions with the past over a period spanning sixty years. An exploration of abstraction within contemporary Chinese painting, the exhibition shares its title with a work by Jiang Zhi, one of nine artists commanding
- [Epicormic Psychology](https://thelearnedpig.org/epicormic-psychology/3558) - The regeneration of Australia’s flora and fauna after fire is swift; or is this just a misconception of a nation’s psyche? The winding trail of sandstone rubble ascends before me through a pocket of dorsal-fin shaped bushland in Lapstone, in Australia’s Blue Mountains. This ecosystem is not granted a name. Even though it
- [The Restless Whirlpool of Life](https://thelearnedpig.org/restless-whirlpool-life/3541) - “Go faster, harder; be stronger, tougher,” – just some of the words I use as mental self-flagellation in those critical first five minutes pounding the pavements on my early morning runs. At the same time, there’s another voice in my head asking why: “Why go faster? Why not slow down? When you slow down, you
- [Dead Space and Ruins](https://thelearnedpig.org/dead-space-ruins/3483) - Few things capture the present like the ruins of the past. After the lofty projects of the twentieth century have crumbled or collapsed, we are left today with certain reminders: literature, memories, a socio-political legacy, and - more photogenically - the rotting ruins of sundry grand architectural schemes. The connection between architecture and utopianism has
- [Frankenstein: Before the Beginning](https://thelearnedpig.org/frankenstein-before-the-beginning/3463) - Every thing must have a beginning… and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. It was precisely two hundred years ago tonight that a very particular nightmare first appeared. In the early hours of 16 June 1816 – around 2:30am if a recent headline-grabbing astronomical
- [Here From Now](https://thelearnedpig.org/here-from-now/1682) - The history of landscape is at the same time a history of art. The eighteenth-century emergence of the picturesque was, as the name suggests, as much a response to painting as it was a response to nature. Land art blossomed as we realised the extent to which we had reformed the surface of the earth:
- [An Orgy of Toads](https://thelearnedpig.org/an-orgy-of-toads/3377) - Soon after the clocks have gone forward and April Fools has passed, a spring event occurs which has yet to capture the popular imagination in quite the same way as eggs and rabbits. From the sodden depths of secret muddy highways, frogs and toads descend on their annual breeding grounds. For one unnerving week I
- [Sophia](https://thelearnedpig.org/sophia/3368) - In 1818, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, newlywed husband of Sophia, Governor-General of Bencoolen, surveyed the island of Singapore, which was made a British colony early the following year. i. 12 December, 1818. Governor-General’s Residence, Bencoolen. Last night, my love, I took the nameless book That arrived with our mail on Thursday’s ship And sat
- [Isomorphology](https://thelearnedpig.org/isomorphology/3335) - For interdisciplinary artist Gemma Anderson, drawing is a mode of knowing and seeing. While drawing is often understood in terms of isolated observation, by sharing the process with a community, for Anderson, it becomes a type of agency for collective knowledge and critical vision. Drawing therefore functions as a bridge between public and private, between
- [What is listing?](https://thelearnedpig.org/what-is-listing/3192) - What is lost when words are wasted? Tomatoes. What is trust when tomatoes are wasted? What is truth? Men, words, hours, waist? When wait women. What is lost when haste is made? That is tossed, is left us that linger, aside. What is lust? What is frost, but sitting on the wooden cutting
- [Kaiku](https://thelearnedpig.org/kaiku/3299) - Kaiku peeked through the kitchen window. The scene was empty - the Shaman was out. Kaiku went to the kitchen cupboard. Behind the pots and pans her fingers found a key. With great care she opened the door. The action made her shiver with excitement. The heavy door opened slowly. The room bathed in sunlight.
- [Revisiting Unknown Places](https://thelearnedpig.org/maria-paakkonen-revisiting-unknown-places/3306) - The art of Maria Pääkkönen concerns itself with a reciprocal relationship between drawing and place. On the one hand is the drawing of the place – that which is observed, recorded, remembered, evoked. On the other is the place of the drawing – its physical presence within the confines of the gallery. Somewhere in between
- [The Reality of Race](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-reality-of-race/3144) - Over the last few decades there has been some confusion about the category of race, a category that was once so central to all the social sciences. If race often appears in quotes, does that mean it is not real? If race is a social construction, why is there still racism in institutions, feelings and
- [Tasked to Hear](https://thelearnedpig.org/tasked-to-hear/1481) - On 30th March 2013 Mark Peter Wright made his way to a point in South Gare – a two-and-a-half-mile stretch of reclaimed land to the south of Teesmouth – and stopped. He made a note of the conditions (temperature, wind speed, humidity) and of his own body temperature. At 12pm, he switched on his audio
- [Finite and Alive](https://thelearnedpig.org/finite-and-alive/2704) - It’s rare for me to write about artists whose work I have never seen face to face. It’s hard to respond through a screen to something created to be viewed up close. But that’s not to say it’s not possible. Besides, however near your nose is to the glass, there is always a distance between
- [A View from the Other Side](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-view-from-the-other-side/1808) - Spot-lit in the cavernous darkness, a model of a city. A model city: monotone, empty, pure, with the pristine edges of laser-cut steel glinting under light. It sits in the centre of an oil-black moat. The whole is perched waist-high on a slowly rotating table. Like many architectural models, the piece feels both large and
- [The Barometer of My Heart](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-barometer-of-my-heart/2755) - On 20th February 2002, at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), in Paris, philosopher Jacques Derrida asked an audience of students the following question: “The phallus, I mean, the phallos, is it proper to man?” This question opened the eighth session of a series of lectures given by Derrida between 2001 and
- [Reliquiae](https://thelearnedpig.org/reliquiae/2984) - If writing is an act of preservation, it is a flawed one. Words change their meanings, books rot, papers burn, whole libraries are lost to time. The longevity of a text is therefore as much a result of material history – and chance – as it is of any inherent truth or beauty. Nonetheless, the
- [Turner and the Sea](https://thelearnedpig.org/turner-and-the-sea/466) - Given that Joseph Mallord William Turner is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of the sea in the history of British art, it seems slightly strange that Turner and the Sea – just opened at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich – is the first full-scale exhibition devoted to this aspect of
- [The Dogs of El Chalten](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-dogs-of-el-chalten/1088) - The village of El Chalten is a service settlement. Located in the Parque Nacional los Glaciares in Patagonia, southern Argentina, the village is a four-hour walk to a network of ancient blue-white glaciers and the sharp, serrated peaks of Fitz Roy, Cerro Torre and Cerro Chalten. Thousands of tourists come to El Chalten each year,
- [Fungiculture](https://thelearnedpig.org/fungiculture/1180) - This summer sees the launch of a brand new academic journal: Fungiculture. Subtitled "A Journal for Psychedelic Culture Studies" Fungiculture was conceived over the past six months or so by a group of course-mates from Goldsmiths in order to provide, in their words, "a space for the experimental and playful cultivation of ideas and practices,
- [London Art Fair 2014](https://thelearnedpig.org/london-art-fair-2014/803) - There’s something reassuring about London Art Fair. The last couple of years have been a particularly turbulent time for London’s galleries. As the big names continue to multiply (Pace, Victoria Miro, David Zwirner etc), some of London’s most consistently innovative spaces have shuddered to a halt. All the while London Art Fair continues, offering up
- [Lunch](https://thelearnedpig.org/lunch/3279) - The man used to think that cars grew on trees. He imagined them growing like apples or lemons, weighing down the boughs of trees until they snapped and the cars settled slowly on the uneven dirt. He liked thinking this way. It was nice that the blue blush of the late afternoon sky in summer
- [HOUSEWORK](https://thelearnedpig.org/housework/3231) - In November 2015, eleven artists took on a Victorian ruin. I was one of them. The resulting exhibition, HOUSEWORK, set out to re-inhabit the stripped-out terrace. In it, paintbrushes and brooms became interchangeable as artworks spilled out into architecture or architecture seeped into art. Words were regarded and discarded; sound waves scribbled in haste; phrases
- [Bench](https://thelearnedpig.org/bench/3219) - A little over eight years ago Jeppe Hein, the Danish installation artist, gave a presentation at the Barbican at which he talked about his Modified Social Bench series. His installation of outdoor benches, each of which was playfully altered to impair its functionality (one with exaggeratedly short or long legs, one apparently broken in two,
- [CO2 Cherries](https://thelearnedpig.org/co2-cherries/3197) - I Rust thing against rot Thing against resting skin red Cheery parallel Lines the blinds of grey once gold Then wood between me and sand. II I spit into lines Those cherries sum the blossoms I would and they wood Now grow pink and red and brown Above, aground, and around.
- [Euclid's First Definition](https://thelearnedpig.org/euclids-first-definition/3151) - Cover image: Euclid, Stoicheia (Elements). Manuscript, Constantinople, September 888. MS. D’Orville 301, fols. 113v-114r © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (via Alain R. Truong)
- [The New Concrete](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-new-concrete/2828) - The history of concrete poetry charts a path from utopia to dystopia. You could say that there’s a secret history of the second half of the twentieth century embedded in this little movement, one that parallels larger changes across cultural output. By the late 1970s, when concrete poetry collapses into a smouldering heap, few could
- [The Courtiers' Anatomists](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-courtiers-anatomists/3067) - What did it mean to experiment with animals in the seventeenth century? There is much ambiguity surrounding the terms “demonstration,” “experience,” and “experiment” in this period, further complicated by linguistic ambiguity: “expérience” in French and “experientia” in Latin could mean what we know in modern English as either experience or experiment. The medieval term “experimentum”
- [Bloom](https://thelearnedpig.org/bloom/2938) - Where to do plants belong? At the bottom of the food chain? At the centre of the world? In a pot? In the garden? Growing wild across moors and mountains, railways and roads... In Ben Cave's book Bloom, plants are depicted both in states of careful order, neatly aligned in vases or jugs, and out
- [The Couple on the Corner](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-couple-on-the-corner/3161) - On the corner of St Michael's Church, Bryngwyn, a couple are fixed together in mortar. They are lying horizontally, one on the east wall, one on the south. Their heads meet at the edge. At some point in the many buildings and re-buildings of this church they have come to be a quoin. Now, as
- [The Death of a Beautiful Subject](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-death-of-a-beautiful-subject/2807) - The Death of a Beautiful Subject is a multidisciplinary project by artist Sophy Rickett, which takes as its starting point a series of butterfly photographs taken by the artist's father. As in previous projects, Rickett examines issues around collaboration and ownership, and encounters between humans, each other, and the natural world. Quiet and poignant and
- [The Decomposition of Cetaceans](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-decomposition-of-cetaceans/2656) - Working as a whale-watching guide offers many perks. I get to see live whales regularly, photograph them, and share the joy of encountering these giants. Over the last two years I have dedicated much time to working with cetaceans in Húsavík, northern Iceland. But there is one thing that can dampen the experience for many
- [Not Just Fir Christmas](https://thelearnedpig.org/not-just-fir-christmas/3138) - The fir tree has had a part to play in traditional winter festivities across Northern Europe for centuries, and a plaque marks the spot where an evergreen was first displayed in Riga town square as part of Latvia’s New Year celebrations in 1510. Queen Victoria’s consort Prince Albert is credited with popularising the Christmas tree
- [Dolly](https://thelearnedpig.org/dolly/3083) - Everyone on Prospect Walk knew Pat Steggles had a problem with drink; it wasn’t just me. For as long as I’d known her she’d always had a glass in her hand, and I often saw her carrying an empty Martini bottle down Wellington Lane to the off-license for a refill. Nobody could fail to notice
- [Modern Naturalism](https://thelearnedpig.org/modern-naturalism/1444) - In 1958, the great Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser published the Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture. In it he declared, with characteristic chutzpah, that: "Only the engineers and scientists who are capable of living in mould and producing mould creatively will be the masters of tomorrow." As far as we're aware, few have taken up
- [Medieval Graffiti - Charms and Curses](https://thelearnedpig.org/medieval-graffiti-charms-and-curses/2626) - This month sees the publication of Matthew Champion's Medieval Graffiti. The book is a fascinating tour through the centuries of hand-carved writing and art that adorns the walls of churches across the country. One of the key themes that emerges is an apparent lack of clear delineation between official and unofficial - in thought, word,
- [The Rapture](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-rapture/2571) - I dreamed I was the only one left in the world. It was a Friday. I was going to see you all Monday. I went to the marshes on Friday night and lay on the ground on my woollen blanket. I was utterly alone. I took my socks off and my jeans. It was a
- [All Tomorrow's Publishers](https://thelearnedpig.org/all-tomorrows-publishers/2738) - Saturday-Sunday 17th & 18th October 2015, Noon – 5pm The Peckham Pelican FREE! This October, The Learned Pig is delighted to be co-curating All Tomorrow's Publishers, a weekend fair for independent publishers, as part of the week-long Literary Kitchen Festival. Taking place at the Peckham Pelican in south London, the fair features a host of
- [The Learned Pig presents...](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-learned-pig-presents/2889) - As a pig-themed entity, we generally prefer to shun anything relating to human kitchens. You never know when you might end up inside a sandwich. But, having made an exception last year for the inaugural Literary Kitchen Festival, we thought we'd do so again for its second instalment - taking place this October down in
- [Walking in the Sky](https://thelearnedpig.org/walking-in-the-sky/1364) - A small brown kestrel rises over the crest of a hill and pauses, hanging in the wind, scanning the fields below. With a tilt of its wings, it shifts vantage point twice, three times, hangs for a moment, then suddenly slides downwards, a gleam of silver under the high sun. Six foot from the ground,
- [A Pervert's Guide to the Apocalypse](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-perverts-guide-to-the-apocalypse/2867) - The bold white title reads "Cool Photos". I dutifully open the email to find yet another link to yet another photo essay from yet another intrepid, probably amateur photographer who has schlepped their medium format through the crumbling halls of Detroit. Or was it Pripyat again? Or some (now) generic computer generated image of the
- [Ghost Town Luxury](https://thelearnedpig.org/jing-jin-city/2250) - Jing Jin City is a luxurious not-quite ghost town in the north of China. By 2004, some 3,000 luxury villas had been constructed about an hour's drive from Beijing, along with golf courses, entertainment complexes, a museum, a temple, two colleges, and an 800-room Hyatt Regency hotel. By 2020, 300,000 people are expected to live
- [The Undomesticated Chanterelle](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-undomesticated-chanterelle/2791) - The Cantharellus cibarius, most commonly known as chanterelle, is one of the most celebrated wild edible mushroom in the world. You would think by now that this prized fungus, which can be collected in the hundreds in certain wooded areas, would be commercially cultivated. But it is not. In fact, only twenty edible fungal species
- [To Solve Such An Equation](https://thelearnedpig.org/to-solve-such-an-equation/994) - Seven Counter-clockwise Turns Around Ruin Lust Have you ever known a place which seemed to have no beginning and no end? Paul Nash, Monster Field 1. The first time I walked to Chanctonbury Ring, it was whole. A proud bristle of beech trees sprouting from an Iron Age fort atop the West
- [On a Headland of Lava Beside You](https://thelearnedpig.org/on-a-headland-of-lava-beside-you/2853) - Joanna Kirk and I are both artists living in Blackheath and have become good friends over time as our children are the same age, friends and at school together. This has led to frequent conversations with us sharing books (for example Karl Ove Knausgaard's) and views on exhibitions and artists, on newspaper articles and TV
- [Hvalreki](https://thelearnedpig.org/hvalreki/2671) - Hvalreki is an installation piece, which explores and interrogates human relationships with whales through their residual bones. The work began through a personal interest in the history that links us humans to the mammals that inhabit the sea. It came about after spending four months in Húsavík, Northern Iceland; exploring the research done by whale
- [Sunspots, a conversation via email](https://thelearnedpig.org/sunspots-a-conversation-via-email/2601) - Sunspots is the latest poetry collection from Simon Barraclough, Poet in Residence at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory. Below Barraclough discusses the collection's origins and ideas, and plenty more besides, over the course of a series of emails with our poetry editor, Crystal Bennes. -----Original Message----- From: crystal bennes < > To: SimonBarraclough
- [Eating Meat](https://thelearnedpig.org/eating-meat/2090) - In nearly every case, something died for you to go on living. Even a vegan or raw food diet requires suppressing some forms of life. With no exception, the lives of microbes, insects, plants, and indeed, a great many animals, are at stake each time we take a bite. Whether we like it or not,
- [Forensics: The anatomy of crime](https://thelearnedpig.org/forensics-the-anatomy-of-crime/2225) - What kinds of death need investigation? A criminal death is one that “didn’t happen naturally”, according to a Baltimore detective in 2012 documentary, Of Dolls and Murder, on show now as part of the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition, Forensics: The anatomy of crime. Once natural causes have been eliminated, the detective continues, that is when “you
- [There are 355 letters in Genesis 4:9-13](https://thelearnedpig.org/there-are-355-letters-in-genesis-49-13/2175) - An excerpt from a sequence of 31 perfect anagrams of Genesis 4: 9-13 in which Cain shares an apartment with Father K. in a disputed territory. Genesis 4: 9-13 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? And He
- [A Fixed Vocabulary](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-fixed-vocabulary/2588) - Is there a word for arriving home after a hot day and finding the place changed, as if everything has been picked up for inspection and put back down in a different spot? What is the word for being surprised by how high the weeds on the train line have grown? What is the word
- [Editorial: Clean Unclean](https://thelearnedpig.org/editorial-clean-unclean/1966) - My side of the desk is scrupulously clean. The other half is a mess of dust and papers, temporarily abandoned books, a pair of tights, a lump of local granite. The line that separates the two is not as clear as I’d like. From the other side, my wife’s stately, slender Mac spaceship turns its
- [Washing Hands](https://thelearnedpig.org/washing-hands/2495) - About twenty years ago I met an Irish girl. She had grown up in the countryside on a farm and, when she told me about her childhood, it sounded like something out of Ryan’s Daughter. Quite the contrast to my own city childhood, growing up in London. These photographs are inspired by a story she
- [Binbag, Pavement Tree, Chainlink Fence](https://thelearnedpig.org/binbag-pavement-tree-chainlink-fence/2471) - Dandelions poking through a chainlink fence; brambles sprouting from an unknown corner; a binbag gashed open, spewing out its contents; scattered leaves; a dead fly. Mimei Thompson paints the everyday and the overlooked. She imbues commonplace subject matter with a sense of strangeness. She works fast, with transclucent oil paint on very smooth, white, non-absorbent
- [Red Snow](https://thelearnedpig.org/red-snow/2458) - Albedo is the fraction of solar energy reflected from the Earth back into space. The word stems from Latin and means whiteness. Ice, with snow on top of it, has a very high albedo. Red snow describes an area of ice polluted, as it were, with red algae. Red algae is typically a mix of
- [Clearing and Cleaning](https://thelearnedpig.org/clearing-and-cleaning/2423) - Through time, and with use, objects become imbued with memories. To tidy them away is to erase the past. Over the past few months, artist John Carroll has been making a series of still-life drawings based around the kitchen table at his home in Manchester. The table tends to be a focal point in the
- [Connswater](https://thelearnedpig.org/connswater/2399) - Our river wasn’t a clean river, a mountain stream, a babbling brook, or a silver girl. It was a filthy river, a city river, forsaken, neglected. Long gone, the glory days, when it was thick with trout and where, according to my father, King Billy watered his horses on his way to the Boyne;
- [Edge and Shift: Brighton Festival and HOUSE](https://thelearnedpig.org/edge-and-shift-brighton-festival-and-house/2403) - Agnes Varda, the legendary eighty-six year-old Belgian filmmaker and artist, is putting the finishing touches to an installation. Towers of lurid plastic buckets and baskets, the pleasing wordplay of “Ping-Pong Tong Camping”, stained glass window panels of flip-flop frisbees, and the photo-puzzle of the Baccalaureate celebrations of naked boys on the beach: Varda’s new work
- [Inca Doves](https://thelearnedpig.org/inca-doves/2393) - Is it odd to say I thought of you as I pulled a dead dove from the swimming pool? Spine up to God, floating lightly with its bright beak face down. Streams of red outlined the strange sight. I gently scooped him up, ignorant of sex, his eyes closed so gently as if in
- [Proper Burial / Clean Machines / Wheat Head](https://thelearnedpig.org/proper-burial-clean-machines-wheat-head/1958) - Proper Burial Each thing we take from the earth requires we bury something of equal value. Dinosaurs buried each other, where they fell, feathered, and massive. Still later, we bundle whole ships with furs for warmth, and spices to trade beneath the earth. One age buries another, patting dirt upon civilization. Dogs understand the
- [The Weight of Stone](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-weight-of-stone/1922) - The Weight of Stone (2014) is a body of work about the former mining town of Kopparberg in Sweden. Kopparberg used to be a sprawling mining town from the 17th century until the mid-1950s. The last mine closed in the '60s amid an already failing economy and high unemployment, which is still the situation today.
- [Do Not Touch the Artworks](https://thelearnedpig.org/do-not-touch-the-artworks/1911) - From 1938-9 and for a period of over fifteen months, a cleaner at The British Museum set to work on the Parthenon Marbles. Using cooper tools, the worker began to clean the marble figures and friezes, believing their bisque-like façade to be unwanted dirt. All manner of scandal, disciplinary action and juridical affairs ensued, with
- [Scabies](https://thelearnedpig.org/scabies/1975) - We holidayed through its incubation. Time spent with family, the large, extended swell of us, in a rented house by a winter sea. What we shared that Christmas would burrow into our warm and secret places, causing us to begin a new year baffled by scratching. The yo-yo trips to doctors, all those different
- [Scenes from an Execution Variations](https://thelearnedpig.org/scenes-from-an-execution-variations/2369) - Few things are as messy as war. Cause and effect, right and wrong: our foundational truths unravel in the face of violence and bloodshed. This has not always been the case when it comes to the art of war. Classical depictions of war were grand, complex compositions, often mythological or generalised. In medieval times, the
- [you are and onto](https://thelearnedpig.org/you-are-and-onto/2352) - neither of you nor not this in stance beside congruities one thing not a way
- [Bitumen and Pork](https://thelearnedpig.org/bitumen-and-pork/2328) - Four busts and an image of creation. BITUMEN AND PORK was an installation to mark the post-performance cabaret of FEAST, a work by theatre company Clout at Battersea Arts Centre in 2014. The performance charted the gradual alienation of mankind through a framework of breakfast, lunch and dinner. The installation BITUMEN AND PORK was an
- [Forgetful Worlds](https://thelearnedpig.org/forgetful-worlds/2077) - Milking parlours are the place of an everyday cleanliness that is found nowhere else. It is difficult type of cleanliness to describe: not tidy in a domestic way, nor sterile, like that of the operating theatre or science lab, but more a work-a-day scrubbing that ensures the milk passes from udder to tank as pure
- [Dirty Dozen](https://thelearnedpig.org/dirty-dozen/1988) - Dirty Dozen is a series of photographs with all the dirt, dust, specs and scratches left on the negatives to be visible after scanning. The aim is to explore the intricate dialogue between process and subject and between what is acceptable and unacceptable in photographic process. When displayed online against a pure white background, it
- [Surface Tension](https://thelearnedpig.org/surface-tension/1983) - Surface Tension is a project investigating life, pollution and biodiversity on the River Lea using photography and sound. Focusing on the blurrings of the natural and unnatural, clean and unclean, built and self-willed in a Lea Valley landscape that is constantly being rewritten and remade, the photographs here were taken on 120 film, and the
- [Wash your mouth out with soap](https://thelearnedpig.org/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap/2141) - "Wash your mouth out with soap!" my mother would exclaim. I remember irresistible mud pies as a child, of voluptuously slopped soil, clad upon and between sticky fingers like chocolate in a fascinating entwine of desire and disgust. I desired what disgusted me, and was disgusted at my own desire. Outside the immaculate interior home,
- [Soap / Eternity / Rendering](https://thelearnedpig.org/soap-eternity-rendering/2286) - INSTRUCTIONS ON A BAR OF NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY SOAP Do what you want, live how you want. Get it behind your ears and all over the skin you want. Do not think about machines. Read what you will, focus your eyes on grime and slime and free will. Or grace,
- [Our Wings](https://thelearnedpig.org/our-wings/2242) - Fair is fair, and clear is clean. Clean air is clear, clear air is clean, though I fathom the factories fair fouled it up. Particulate, exudate, aerosols, mud, benzene, dioxins, DDT, blood. Filthy factory runoff grimes up our groundwater. Oozes thin. Gurgles thick. We slide and we slip on greased oilcloth earth. Our dirt is
- [Filth](https://thelearnedpig.org/filth/2132) - Covered in filth, a disastrous clumsy brain excavates deep to identify causality. Distrusting and perilous, Broken mirror images echo an unsung nursery rhyme in an incomprehensible language. For unclean, as impure, as spoilt, This one is a crummy little one. She has not made any effort whatsoever, and now has the nerve to
- [Liquorice](https://thelearnedpig.org/liquorice/2194) - With drains for legs the rain runs off you And though it's always cold, (with lead for legs) it's not wet. Black roots are hard but damp liquorice runs like mascara Making pandas of eyes Heavy like the lid that the scent lifts on memories as distant as feet, Ash boots the fag ends
- [When It Breaks](https://thelearnedpig.org/when-it-breaks/2200) - When the side of the building falls, it is a spring morning, April, not yet dawn. And there is no warning. The crack was there for a long time, all up the side, visible on every floor. Everything’s broken, all broken. You can’t worry about these things. What Sondra’s mother told her: You stop worrying.
- [The Home Hairdresser, Wakefield](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-home-hairdresser-wakefield/1920) - Holding her hair over the sink, the water runs red; it trickles down her temple. It gets on lunch’s dirty plates. The towels are black, the floor beige. Don’t touch your head, you'll get pink fingers! Put these gloves on, and just comb it out whilst I finish off Emma’s fringe. It splashes. Hair fragments
- [Ravilious](https://thelearnedpig.org/ravilious/2268) - Fashions in art have a way of carrying all before them. They crash into the public consciousness, all splash and spectacle, and it is all too easy, in the rage to reorder and make sense of what ensues, to take epoch-making headlines for the whole story. It is under these conditions that a talent like
- [Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy](https://thelearnedpig.org/magna-carta-law-liberty-legacy/2062) - The Human Rights Act (1998), which enacted the European Convention of Human Rights (1950), has been in the firing line almost since it was passed. Some opposition is rooted in its ability to protect dangerous suspects, like giving alleged terrorists the benefit of a fair trial or delaying their extradition. For others, dislike is linked
- [What Was Once the Threshing Barn](https://thelearnedpig.org/what-was-once-the-threshing-barn/1429) - Public/private, urban/rural, commercial/not-for-profit: it’s not like the waters between the two have ever been crystal clear, but now, with the opening in Somerset of the latest outpost of contemporary art giants Hauser & Wirth (London, Zurich, New York) the silt has been stirred up and it all seems just that little bit muddier than before.
- [Rye's Valhalla](https://thelearnedpig.org/ryes-valhalla/1506) - Influx Press’s editor-at-large, Gary Budden, and author of Marshland, Gareth E. Rees, venture into Rye Harbour with inadequate footwear and a 1904 guide to Sussex. They discover more than they'd bargained for... BUDDEN: I switch at Ashford International. I hate Ashford. The train rumbles off. I rub my eyes, wishing I’d slept more.
- [Strawberry Hill Anastylosis](https://thelearnedpig.org/strawberry-hill-anastylosis/1891) - Strawberry Hill House first poked its turrets into my undergraduate imagination as the birthplace of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, whose central image apparently came to him in a dream there – “of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle – and that on the uppermost
- [Of a Mouse, To a Mouse](https://thelearnedpig.org/of-a-mouse-to-a-mouse/1883) - The clean pink two back feet he has have long toes almost like a bird’s. Unlike a bird’s, the tail, a draggled earthworm, limps behind his search. Head joined on distinctly to a face but not a neck to speak of. See his oildot eyes like little fleas and yes, they’re shiny! really! Shining eyes!
- [In Richmond Park](https://thelearnedpig.org/in-richmond-park/1877) - Here is the cusp of November colour: deer in a nicotine prairie. Trunks snaked by squirrels, clouds and crows over yellow and russet leaf-rag. On thin legs, bulbous-jointed like twiglets, picking their way through the tussocks, three females pause, wary of me inching toward their group. Of the two stags, one chooses now to move
- [From the Foreshore](https://thelearnedpig.org/from-the-foreshore/1849) - This March sees an exhibition of large-scale drawings by Sophie Charalambous hosted by curator and gallerist Jessica Carlisle. The works on show capture the strange energy of the Thames foreshore – a place of washed out tones and washed up objects. Timeless characters pick through the sedimentary layers of history; silver and black flows past
- [Chasing Suns](https://thelearnedpig.org/chasing-suns/1733) - The arc of the sun across the sky is one of the most enduring images: repeated every day for all to see. And yet, each time it's a little different, varying according to geographical location, visibility, and time of year. Chasing Suns is an ongoing long-term photographic project by artist Pauline Woolley. The images were
- [Arkhipelagos](https://thelearnedpig.org/arkhipelagos/1107) - There is a sense of relief, upon leaving this exhibition, of being palpably bound up with pavement, sky and, a few short paces away, the murky heave and rush of the Thames with its welcome damp rising. A skeleton hull of a boat, displayed on the banks of the Thames, ghosts the space from which
- [Multiverses 263-396: Another Worlds iz Possible](https://thelearnedpig.org/multiverses-263-396-another-worlds-iz-possible/1754) - After John Bell, Momus, Heisenberg, Jonathan Swift, I Ching, Calvino, and Shrodinger Multiverse 263 The Multiverse in which multiplication is always exponential across galaxies. For every status update posted on Facebook, another two are posted in alternative Multiverses. Multiverse 264 The Multiverse in which falsifiability has been banished. All knowledge in Multiverse 264
- [Animals are good to think [with]](https://thelearnedpig.org/animals-are-good-to-think-with/1335) - Animals are good to think [with] - Claude Lévi-Strauss To be in two minds, think amoeba. To sell tea, think chimp. To build your own beak, think owl. To lick jowls and vomit logic, think wolf. To be insulted, think cow. To turn your voice inside- out, think crow. To balance the earth
- [Waste (extracts)](https://thelearnedpig.org/waste-extracts/726) - You think in the animal kingdom there’s no waste cause you’re nice and shun anthropomorphism but actually there’s a lot I mean you’re nice and don’t want to imbue empty human qualities onto black eyes but actually there’s a lot If you don’t believe me, get out of the city and look in the dirt,
- [The Waldorf Project, Chapter II: Colour](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-waldorf-project-chapter-ii-colour/1794) - “Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.” Kahlil Gibran Colour perception. First noted by Aristotle, later defined by Newton: the spectrum of visible light interacting with sensors on the human eye. That is all. Yet, in his work on colour theory, Goethe
- [Beauty and Revolution / A Token of Concrete Affection](https://thelearnedpig.org/beauty-and-revolution-a-token-of-concrete-affection/1767) - Now is the time to visit Cambridge if you’re a fan of concrete poetry. At Kettle’s Yard is Beauty and Revolution, an exhibition of work by Ian Hamilton Finlay, while the Centre of Latin American Studies plays host to a group exhibition entitled A Token of Concrete Affection. Both are furnished from the private collection
- [Life in a Time of Plenty, III](https://thelearnedpig.org/life-in-a-time-of-plenty-iii/685) - Part 3: After Now summer is coming around again. Rain is neither surprise nor burden; a clear sky is nothing more than that. Now is a time of plenty: the reservoirs aren’t full but they’re full enough; gardens grow without assistance; crops fail, or flourish, but farming in Australia has always been difficult. There is
- [PYG](https://thelearnedpig.org/pyg/693) - Toby is one influential pig. As the very first learned pig to turn his tricks upon the stage, he provided a template for countless subsequent acts at fairs and festivals throughout the nineteenth century, and following this proliferation, a richly evocative motif for poets and sundry satirists. He is also, of course, the inspiration for
- [Psychosis in the Andes](https://thelearnedpig.org/psychosis-in-the-andes/888) - Dr Patricio practices indigenous medicine in a small clinic in the Andes. Sometimes he describes himself as a doctor, sometimes as a yachac or shaman. Here, the two are interchangeable. Western and indigenous medicine inform and shape each other. The clinic in which he practices is called Jambi Huasi, meaning ‘House of Health’ in Kichwa,
- [Leap Towards Yourself](https://thelearnedpig.org/leap-towards-yourself/1047) - This February sees the publication a new book that spans the entire career of Israeli photographer Sharon Ya’ari. Coinciding with a major exhibition of his work at the Tel Aviv Museum, Leap Towards Yourself demonstrates Ya’ari’s interest in the apparently mundane and frequently overlooked. Frozen in the photograph, however, these scenes become the subject of
- [Phytology](https://thelearnedpig.org/phytology/1168) - “And though thou seemst a weedling wild – Wild and neglected like to me – Thou still art dear to nature’s child And I will stoop to notice thee For oft like thee, in wild retreat, Arrayed in humble garb like thee, There’s many a seeming weed proves sweet As sweet as garden flowers can
- [No Rural Fantasy](https://thelearnedpig.org/no-rural-fantasy/1248) - The anti-pastoral of Cynan Jones I’m a Londoner through and through; a city person fascinated by everything the city is not. The rural worlds outside of mine are compelling, attractive, and occasionally frightening. I admit, as I head into my thirties, I feel the pull of an idea of being out in the country somewhere.
- [Travelling with Unfamiliar Spirits](https://thelearnedpig.org/travelling-with-unfamiliar-spirits/1411) - Taking place this October – just in time for Hallowe'en – is a two-week festival of esoteric art, entitled I:MAGE 2014, that promises to explore the fertile relationship between artists and spirit entities. If the world of the esoteric can often seem closed off (almost by definition) then I:MAGE 2014 goes some way towards breaking
- [A Field Guide to East London Wildlife](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-field-guide-to-east-london-wildlife/1585) - Humans are not the only species undergoing a process of urbanisation. It is well documented that we have made a mess of this planet, and - depending on who you speak to - it may be too late to do anything about it. But as the world gradually turns to concrete, and species extinction continues
- [Reimagining the British Witch](https://thelearnedpig.org/reimagining-the-british-witch/1555) - My first encounter with the works of Hayley Potter was in 2008, and the Secret Creature project: a diverse melange of strange, semi-believable owl-sheep-cat-bat-birds that flocked together in the branches of a community tree and peered out at you myopically. Since then her work has developed and her subjects proliferated. She has worked for a
- [Oikeusjuttu (The Trial)](https://thelearnedpig.org/oikeusjuttu-the-trial/1536) - In Finland, the wolf is both more and less than an animal; it is a symbol. And this November sees a court case in which the very nature of that symbolism will be on trial. Fifteen men have been accused of the 2013 killing of three wolves (three of a population of around 150) in
- [A Needle Walks into a Haystack](https://thelearnedpig.org/a-needle-walks-into-a-haystack/1491) - Sound carries. And it is the sounds of political and social unrest that offer one of the most interesting threads for navigating this year’s Liverpool Biennial – a constellation of exhibitions, events and curatorial side-shows grouped under the title, A Needle Walks into a Haystack. The Biennial’s greatest achievement is its power to make you
- [The Sensorial Invisibility of Plants](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-sensorial-invisibility-of-plants/1284) - Laura Cinti’s work stretches the boundaries of our understanding of plant behaviour. Cinti is best known as an artist who works with biology, and, in addition to her own practice, she is also co-founder (with Howard Boland) and co-director of C-LAB, an internationally recognised interdisciplinary art platform that generates and participates in both artistic and
- [No one dives in me](https://thelearnedpig.org/no-one-dives-in-me/954) - Seven things I’ve learned from 20 years as a community swimming pool. As told to Kit Caless. When I’m cold I’m lonely. When I’m cold, the black brick sat on my bottom has no person to pick it up. They put a sign outside that says, “The pool is currently at 26
- [Heliotrope](https://thelearnedpig.org/heliotrope/1395) - For A.G. The fire called the shadows in They rushed to occupy every perimeter Crowded the mantelpiece, jostled with sharp elbows Tore up the carpets and hung heavily from the curtains Whispered their love songs with hoarse and gentle tongues Scattered in terror at the weft of the flame as it buckled
- [The Junior Doctor](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-junior-doctor/1075) - In the middle of a cabbage farm, an hour’s drive from the Andean town of Otavalo, Ecuador, is a small radio station on the ground floor of a farmhouse. Radio Ilumán is the local indigenous radio station, presented entirely in Kichwa. Each week Dr Nadia Montero and the director of Jambi Huasi drive to the
- [The Story of a Single Rock](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-story-of-a-single-rock/1265) - Like many stories, this one begins with a rock, in fact one rock amongst many: the shifting shingle which geographically defines and continually redefines the salt marshes of Orford Ness. When contemporary artist Anya Gallaccio made her first trip to the shingle spit of the Ness, it was not the accidental sculptures of wire and
- [Journals and Imprints Fair](https://thelearnedpig.org/journals-and-imprints-fair/1157) - Sunday 22nd June, Noon - 4pm The Peckham Pelican FREE! This June, The Learned Pig is delighted to be co-hosting a Sunday afternoon journals and imprints fair, as part of the week-long Literary Kitchen Festival. Taking place at the Peckham Pelican in south London, the fair features a host of our favourite independent
- [New Wine, Old Pots](https://thelearnedpig.org/new-wine-old-pots/1195) - When it comes to starting afresh, sometimes it helps to acknowledge a lack of control. That's the thought that begins to crystallise while visiting the headquarters of De Martino, one of Chile's most innovative winemakers. We're standing in a large, bare, warehouse, just south of Santiago, among rows of several hundred clay amphorae. It's like
- [100 poems in a day](https://thelearnedpig.org/100-poems-in-a-day/742) - On 22nd November 2013, Claire Trevien recklessly agreed to write 100 poems in a single day in order to raise money for Refuge. That's more than she usually writes in a year. Below are three of our favourites. Message in a bottlenose dolphin* for Tori clickclickclickclick arw clickclickclickclick crrrrrreak clickclickclickclick arw clickclickclickclickclickclick whipewhipe
- [Table of Contents](https://thelearnedpig.org/table-of-contents/861) - I walk into a large, roomy space. Clustered in the middle is a group of people; there’s quiet murmuring, some sounds of scraping chalk. Around the edges are bags and coats, and some simple stools dotted about the space. I feel like I’ve just joined a rehearsal, perhaps even a laboratory. I drop my things
- [Twelve-Fisted Boxing Caterpillar](https://thelearnedpig.org/twelve-fisted-boxing-caterpillar/1137) - On my way back from the gallery I took a train and experienced the usual flicker of annoyance when the conductor began speaking to us as if we were in a plane. He gave the estimated arrival time, pointed us to the safety notices, alerted us to any suspicious looking bags. It was the usual
- [Touching Wood](https://thelearnedpig.org/touching-wood/1115) - Rarely do curators at large public museums co-ordinate concurrent exhibitions to complement each other. But by chance or design, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) in Santiago, Chile, is bucking the trend. Of the half-dozen or so solo exhibitions currently on show, there are three which share a common material interest: wood. They form, if
- [Symbiosis State](https://thelearnedpig.org/symbiosis-state/1011) - There’s something intrinsically interesting about symbiosis – not only in and of itself, but also as a model for new ways of thinking about relationships between, for example, art and science, or humans and the environment. California-based artist Amber Stucke has been exploring symbiosis, as well as ideas around consciousness and embodiment, for the past
- [On Collaboration](https://thelearnedpig.org/on-collaboration/544) - SJ Fowler is a poet, artist, martial artist and vanguardist. He works across poetry, sonic art, visual art, installation and performance, has published five books and been commissioned by the Tate, Mercy, and the London Sinfonietta. He is the poetry editor of 3:AM magazine and founder of the Maintenant series. Most recently, Fowler has curated
- [WOR(L)D(K) IN PROGRESS?](https://thelearnedpig.org/worldk-in-progress/969) - When I first walked in, I didn’t get it. The walls of the first gallery are covered in neon orange paper. Obviously this was done for effect, but what effect, other than mild visionary discomfort, I could not think. And there was a man in a chair. Not a real man in a chair (although
- [Objects in the Field](https://thelearnedpig.org/objects-in-the-field/900) - Collaboration between the arts and the sciences is both increasingly prominent and, perhaps as a consequence, increasingly problematic. Projects and practices describing themselves as interdisciplinary collaborations are on the rise, in part as a result of funding availability. But it’s also more complex than that: art is always drawn to power, and few institutions in
- [Hidden Landscapes Project](https://thelearnedpig.org/hidden-landscapes-letchworth/382) - "Over the course of 12 months, beginning September 2012, eight sites located within and around Letchworth Garden City were explored and narrowed down to four (Sites 1, 2, 3 and 6). These were then ‘excavated’ as part of the Hidden Landscapes Project." And so begins Christina Bryant's report, in which the artist-investigator provides a painstaking
- [Ending Ecocide in Europe](https://thelearnedpig.org/ending-ecocide-in-europe/568) - It’s strange to think that, although crimes against humanity are an established (albeit recent) aspect of international law, no such equivalent exists for the non-human. As Jacques Derrida puts it in The Beast and the Sovereign: “There is no ‘crime against animality’ nor crime of genocide against nonhuman living beings.” Ecocide is a crime, however,
- [To Leave a Light Impression](https://thelearnedpig.org/to-leave-a-light-impression/822) - An exhibition of large-scale landscape photographs of ethereal beauty opens today at the Bermondsey Street outpost of White Cube. Darren Almond’s latest work follows on from his last solo show with the gallery, 2008’s Moons of the Iapetus Ocean, and includes images taken as far afield as Patagonia, Tasmania and Cape Verde. The heart of
- [Untitled](https://thelearnedpig.org/untitled/503) - give me a coin for the slot machine sky, I said and she gave me the sun and the polka dancing stars were sequins on night’s black dress give me a coin for the slot machine sky, I said and she gave me the moon and the day was a smooth blue pebble give
- [She speaks](https://thelearnedpig.org/she-said/678) - in a hoar frost, she said: the weather’s made a Miss Havisham’s wedding feast of this wood the dark of bark and leaf is cobwebbed over the hoar has clapped white hands over all those breathing mouths the air nests whitely in the trees and waits like birds like words to be
- [The Jambi Huasi Clinic](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-jambi-huasi-clinic/298) - The town of Otavalo, just two hours from Quito, is a place where Ecuador’s indigenous Andean population has thrived for thousands of years. The Quichua indígenas (indigenous people) in Otavalo make up a large proportion of the city’s population and although many still live in poverty, the socio-economic status of the community is high compared
- [Life in a Time of Plenty, II](https://thelearnedpig.org/life-in-a-time-of-plenty-ii/669) - Part 2: Deluge When the rain came, it came hard. In hindsight that shouldn’t have surprised anyone: the Australian environment is not gentle. By the time then-Minister for Agriculture Joe Ludwig announced in March 2012 that federal drought assistance was no longer needed in Bundarra and Eurobodalla – the only areas still listed as being
- [Life in a Time of Plenty, I](https://thelearnedpig.org/life-in-a-time-of-plenty-i/367) - Part 1: Drought On New Year’s Day 2007, drought came to Melbourne. Water restrictions, previously moderate, were tightened, and overnight the residents of Australia’s second largest city found themselves in a water crisis: fountains stopped flowing, gardens went unwatered, and almost immediately the city turned brown. Water still came gushing out of the tap as
- [The Island](https://thelearnedpig.org/the-island/143) - I. He covers my eyes with a blindfold of elderberries and makes me promise not to peek. He thrusts a lead in my hand and, with a clicking noise out the side of his mouth, it rapidly becomes clear that we are sitting in something and that the something is moving. I peek between my
- [Trevor Kiernander](https://thelearnedpig.org/trevor-kiernander/601) - It wasn’t until he told me that I made the connection. I’m not sure whether I should tell you though. Whether it changes the experience of seeing too much. Knowing that many images are abstracted from photographs. From thumbnails of Tracey Emin taken from the BBC news website. From a photograph of his girlfriend, laughing
- [Dead Bears and Pylons](https://thelearnedpig.org/dead-bears-and-pylons/348) - “What the hell is that?” The man was at the bottom of Millfields Park in Hackney, can of lager in hand. He frowned across the Lea River at a cormorant bobbing in the water. “I dunno,” said his girlfriend as I passed by. “A black swan?” When many Londoners come to the eastern edge of

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- [Orford Ness](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/orford-ness)
- [Francesca Brooks](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/francesca-brooks)
- [Anya Gallaccio](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/anya-gallaccio)
- [art-science](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/art-science)
- [bio art](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/bio-art)
- [Laura Cinti](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/laura-cinti)
- [C-Lab](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/c-lab)
- [Colombia](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/colombia)
- [Bogota](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/bogota)
- [drugs](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/drugs)
- [Alberto Baraya](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/alberto-baraya)
- [Rosario Lopez](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rosario-lopez)
- [Jose Roca](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/jose-roca)
- [FLORA](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/flora)
- [botany](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/botany)
- [Susan Richardson](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/susan-richardson)
- [The Black Sheep Inn](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/the-black-sheep-inn)
- [agriculture](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/agriculture)
- [Peru](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/peru)
- [recycling](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/recycling)
- [Dan Crockett](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/dan-crockett)
- [Mark Titchner](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mark-titchner)
- [esoteric](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/esoteric)
- [Fulgur](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fulgur)
- [Somerset](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/somerset)
- [Bruton](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/bruton)
- [Hauser & Wirth](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/hauser-wirth)
- [Phyllida Barlow](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/phyllida-barlow)
- [design](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/design)
- [biology](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/biology)
- [synthetic biology](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/synthetic-biology)
- [Kathryn Fleming](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/kathryn-fleming)
- [site-specific](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/site-specific)
- [sound](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sound)
- [WG Hoskins](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/wg-hoskins)
- [Liverpool](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/liverpool)
- [Liverpool Biennial](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/liverpool-biennial)
- [Rye](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rye)
- [Helsinki](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/helsinki)
- [Finland](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/finland)
- [performance](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/performance)
- [theatre](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/theatre)
- [Terike Haapoja](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/terike-haapoja)
- [Laura Gustafsson](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/laura-gustafsson)
- [wolf](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/wolf)
- [Hayley Potter](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/hayley-potter)
- [illustration](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/illustration)
- [witch](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/witch)
- [Ian McDonnell](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ian-mcdonnell)
- [Harry Ades](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/harry-ades)
- [Hoxton Mini Press](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/hoxton-mini-press)
- [insects](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/insects)
- [conference](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/conference)
- [academia](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/academia)
- [history](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/history)
- [Clean Unclean](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/clean-unclean)
- [Pauline Woolley](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/pauline-woolley)
- [Brian Cox](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/brian-cox)
- [religion](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/religion)
- [textiles](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/textiles)
- [multiverse](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/multiverse)
- [theory](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/theory)
- [Ian Hamilton Finlay](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ian-hamilton-finlay)
- [concrete poetry](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/concrete-poetry)
- [war](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/war)
- [printing](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/printing)
- [text](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/text)
- [Cambridge](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cambridge)
- [Kettle's Yard](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/kettles-yard)
- [Katherine Templar Lewis](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/katherine-templar-lewis)
- [Sean Rogg](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sean-rogg)
- [Turku](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/turku)
- [Jessica Carlisle](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/jessica-carlisle)
- [Sophie Charalambous](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sophie-charalambous)
- [Gothic](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/gothic)
- [Horace Walpole](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/horace-walpole)
- [wallpaper](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/wallpaper)
- [British Museum](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/british-museum)
- [Elgin Marbles](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/elgin-marbles)
- [Tate](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/tate)
- [John Martin](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/john-martin)
- [conservation](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/conservation)
- [cleaning](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cleaning)
- [curator](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/curator)
- [beauty](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/beauty)
- [rewilding](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rewilding)
- [George Monbiot](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/george-monbiot)
- [music](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/music)
- [disease](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/disease)
- [death](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/death)
- [water](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/water)
- [river](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/river)
- [dust](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/dust)
- [night](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/night)
- [British Library](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/british-library)
- [Simon Ryder](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/simon-ryder)
- [family](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/family)
- [prose](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/prose)
- [fiction](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fiction)
- [museum](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/museum)
- [crime](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/crime)
- [urbanism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/urbanism)
- [China](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/china)
- [New York](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/new-york)
- [cities](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cities)
- [Laura Culham](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/laura-culham)
- [pigs](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/pigs)
- [Battersea Arts Centre](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/battersea-arts-centre)
- [violence](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/violence)
- [Picasso](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/picasso)
- [Tim Shaw](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/tim-shaw)
- [Guernica](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/guernica)
- [fish](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fish)
- [Brighton](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/brighton)
- [charcoal](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/charcoal)
- [trees](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/trees)
- [ritual](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ritual)
- [Simon Barraclough](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/simon-barraclough)
- [email](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/email)
- [graffiti](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/graffiti)
- [churches](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/churches)
- [Matthew Champion](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/matthew-champion)
- [whales](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/whales)
- [Iceland](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/iceland)
- [Húsavík Whale Museum](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/husavik-whale-museum)
- [Rebecca Clark](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rebecca-clark)
- [bees](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/bees)
- [oysters](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/oysters)
- [Adkins Arboretum](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/adkins-arboretum)
- [Corbel Stone Press](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/corbel-stone-press)
- [Mark Storor](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mark-storor)
- [Artsadmin](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/artsadmin)
- [foraging](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/foraging)
- [chanterelle](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/chanterelle)
- [moths](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/moths)
- [conceptual](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/conceptual)
- [Joanna Kirk](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/joanna-kirk)
- [pastel](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/pastel)
- [ruins](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ruins)
- [gaming](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/gaming)
- [Pripyat](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/pripyat)
- [Chernobyl](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/chernobyl)
- [All Tomorrow's Publishers](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/all-tomorrows-publishers)
- [publishing](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/publishing)
- [journals](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/journals)
- [magazines](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/magazines)
- [festival](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/festival)
- [Ben Cave](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ben-cave)
- [invasive species](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/invasive-species)
- [Japanese knotweed](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/japanese-knotweed)
- [native](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/native)
- [rhododendron](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rhododendron)
- [Mark Peter Wright](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mark-peter-wright)
- [IMT Gallery](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/imt-gallery)
- [starlings](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/starlings)
- [Halloween](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/halloween)
- [mould](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mould)
- [Horniman Museum](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/horniman-museum)
- [giant hogweed](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/giant-hogweed)
- [Paris](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/paris)
- [France](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/france)
- [autopsy](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/autopsy)
- [dissection](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/dissection)
- [Descartes](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/descartes)
- [parakeets](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/parakeets)
- [Christmas](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/christmas)
- [Christmas tree](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/christmas-tree)
- [geography](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/geography)
- [race](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/race)
- [globalisation](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/globalisation)
- [migration](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/migration)
- [racism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/racism)
- [Euclid](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/euclid)
- [geometry](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/geometry)
- [mathematics](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mathematics)
- [maps](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/maps)
- [benches](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/benches)
- [Tintype](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/tintype)
- [Michael Marder](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/michael-marder)
- [cars](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cars)
- [Juhannusvalkeat](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/juhannusvalkeat)
- [sex](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sex)
- [toads](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/toads)
- [frogs](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/frogs)
- [Shakespeare](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/shakespeare)
- [fashion](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fashion)
- [anthropology](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/anthropology)
- [David Graeber](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/david-graeber)
- [economics](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/economics)
- [John Stark](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/john-stark)
- [environment](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/environment)
- [Romanticism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/romanticism)
- [Frankenstein](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/frankenstein)
- [Mary Shelley](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mary-shelley)
- [Essex](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/essex)
- [place](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/place)
- [Brexit](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/brexit)
- [time](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/time)
- [Harwich](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/harwich)
- [community](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/community)
- [Russia](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/russia)
- [Schopenhauer](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/schopenhauer)
- [Zen](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/zen)
- [Alan Watts](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/alan-watts)
- [Mike Leigh](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mike-leigh)
- [fire](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fire)
- [Communism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/communism)
- [etching](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/etching)
- [Paul Klee](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/paul-klee)
- [Claire Penketh](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/claire-penketh)
- [dyspraxia](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/dyspraxia)
- [education](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/education)
- [psychology](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/psychology)
- [Artangel](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/artangel)
- [Oscar Wilde](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/oscar-wilde)
- [Thames](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/thames)
- [Estuary 2017](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/estuary-2017)
- [Charlotte Sleigh](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/charlotte-sleigh)
- [cycling](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cycling)
- [Berlin](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/berlin)
- [A New Map of Berlin](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/a-new-map-of-berlin)
- [CC O'Hanlon](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cc-ohanlon)
- [Arctic](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/arctic)
- [Philip Hatfield](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/philip-hatfield)
- [Little Island Press](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/little-island-press)
- [Charles Foster](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/charles-foster)
- [Thomas Thwaites](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/thomas-thwaites)
- [open call](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/open-call)
- [Wolf Crossing](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/wolf-crossing)
- [Anthropocene](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/anthropocene)
- [John Berger](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/john-berger)
- [aquatint](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/aquatint)
- [zoo](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/zoo)
- [Charles Darwin](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/charles-darwin)
- [evolution](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/evolution)
- [bears](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/bears)
- [choreography](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/choreography)
- [dance](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/dance)
- [gender](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/gender)
- [clothing](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/clothing)
- [Shapero Modern](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/shapero-modern)
- [translation](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/translation)
- [Virgil](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/virgil)
- [Aeneid](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/aeneid)
- [Seamus Heaney](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/seamus-heaney)
- [symbolism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/symbolism)
- [desire](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/desire)
- [body](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/body)
- [Freud](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/freud)
- [Polar Bear Day](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/polar-bear-day)
- [Finn Lafcadio O'Hanlon](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/finn-lafcadio-ohanlon)
- [Anne-Marie Filaire](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/anne-marie-filaire)
- [Mucem](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mucem)
- [Marseilles](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/marseilles)
- [Josef Koudelka](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/josef-koudelka)
- [borders](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/borders)
- [Scotland](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/scotland)
- [Italy](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/italy)
- [chemistry](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/chemistry)
- [Robert Frost](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/robert-frost)
- [Japan](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/japan)
- [werewolf](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/werewolf)
- [Ireland](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ireland)
- [Spain](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/spain)
- [she-wolf](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/she-wolf)
- [Russell Persson](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/russell-persson)
- [Autumn Richardson](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/autumn-richardson)
- [Richard Skelton](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/richard-skelton)
- [Gordon Cheung](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/gordon-cheung)
- [Edel Assanti](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/edel-assanti)
- [foxes](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/foxes)
- [Nadege Meriau](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/nadege-meriau)
- [Mexico](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mexico)
- [women](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/women)
- [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mary-wollstonecraft)
- [running](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/running)
- [Joanna Pallaris](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/joanna-pallaris)
- [coyote](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/coyote)
- [Shortening the Candle's Wick](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/shortening-the-candles-wick)
- [hunting](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/hunting)
- [Deleuze](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/deleuze)
- [Guattari](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/guattari)
- [Paulette Jonguitud](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/paulette-jonguitud)
- [CB Editions](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cb-editions)
- [diorama](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/diorama)
- [David Lisser](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/david-lisser)
- [meat](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/meat)
- [Norway](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/norway)
- [forests](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/forests)
- [genetics](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/genetics)
- [epigenetics](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/epigenetics)
- [public space](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/public-space)
- [Anna Minton](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/anna-minton)
- [cave](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cave)
- [Plato](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/plato)
- [nationalism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/nationalism)
- [Fitzcarraldo Editions](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fitzcarraldo-editions)
- [monsters](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/monsters)
- [Jessica Ciccarelli](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/jessica-ciccarelli)
- [America](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/america)
- [Louisiana](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/louisiana)
- [memoir](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/memoir)
- [review](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/review)
- [Sussex](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sussex)
- [England](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/england)
- [Germany](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/germany)
- [Paul Scraton](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/paul-scraton)
- [commnuity](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/commnuity)
- [sexuality](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sexuality)
- [Maxim Peter Griffin](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/maxim-peter-griffin)
- [Triarchy Press](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/triarchy-press)
- [JR Carpenter](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/jr-carpenter)
- [Uniformbooks](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/uniformbooks)
- [controversy](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/controversy)
- [Carnevale](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/carnevale)
- [Andrea Roe](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/andrea-roe)
- [Edinburgh](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/edinburgh)
- [Simon Carroll](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/simon-carroll)
- [ceramics](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ceramics)
- [pottery](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/pottery)
- [colonialism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/colonialism)
- [India](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/india)
- [Manchester](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/manchester)
- [Joy Division](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/joy-division)
- [Marx](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/marx)
- [Engels](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/engels)
- [Olive Senior](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/olive-senior)
- [Insomniac Press](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/insomniac-press)
- [Amanda Ackerman](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/amanda-ackerman)
- [Tania El Khoury](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/tania-el-khoury)
- [interactive](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/interactive)
- [Syria](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/syria)
- [vegetables](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/vegetables)
- [knowing](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/knowing)
- [Greenhouse](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/greenhouse)
- [Climate](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/climate)
- [Structures](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/structures)
- [Perennial Institute](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/perennial-institute)
- [Islam](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/islam)
- [Garden Voices](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/garden-voices)
- [Weeds](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/weeds)
- [Compost](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/compost)
- [Phytocracy](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/phytocracy)
- [Invasive Plants](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/invasive-plants)
- [Slovenia](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/slovenia)
- [Hungary](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/hungary)
- [tree](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/tree)
- [empathy](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/empathy)
- [native species](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/native-species)
- [Instruments](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/instruments)
- [Moira Refugee Camp](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/moira-refugee-camp)
- [Refugee Camp](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/refugee-camp)
- [Refugees](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/refugees)
- [Radio](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/radio)
- [A-1 Publishers](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/a-1-publishers)
- [Greece](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/greece)
- [Edge](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/edge)
- [Island](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/island)
- [Moria Refugee Camp](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/moria-refugee-camp)
- [Anish Kapoor](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/anish-kapoor)
- [Hayward](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/hayward)
- [Radical Landscapes](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/radical-landscapes)
- [Alec Finlay](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/alec-finlay)
- [Glasgow](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/glasgow)
- [slugs](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/slugs)
- [sheep](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sheep)
- [cyanotypes](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cyanotypes)
- [Rewind / Rewild](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rewind-rewild)
- [Anna Souter](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/anna-souter)
- [Beatrice Searle](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/beatrice-searle)
- [Omved Gardens](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/omved-gardens)
- [Richard Long](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/richard-long)
- [etymology](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/etymology)
- [magic](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/magic)
- [ice](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ice)
- [Louise Pallister](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/louise-pallister)
- [Marloe Mens](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/marloe-mens)
- [Fields](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fields)
- [Agnes Denes](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/agnes-denes)
- [Rachel Goldblatt](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rachel-goldblatt)
- [Julia Cavicchi](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/julia-cavicchi)
- [Melanie Viets](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/melanie-viets)
- [Root Mapping](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/root-mapping)
- [Rhythm](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rhythm)
- [Thomas Hardy](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/thomas-hardy)
- [Maya Angelou](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/maya-angelou)
- [Lee Krasner](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/lee-krasner)
- [Microbial Selfies](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/microbial-selfies)
- [Rot](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rot)
- [Palestine](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/palestine)
- [Yves Berger](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/yves-berger)
- [gold](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/gold)
- [Giancarlo Scaglia](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/giancarlo-scaglia)
- [weaving](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/weaving)
- [making](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/making)
- [house](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/house)
- [extinction](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/extinction)
- [craft](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/craft)
- [Tim Ingold](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/tim-ingold)
- [Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/kamil-bouzoubaa-grivel)
- [French](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/french)
- [climate justice](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/climate-justice)
- [seeds](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/seeds)
- [farmer](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/farmer)
- [alchemy](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/alchemy)
- [alchemist](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/alchemist)
- [embalmer](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/embalmer)
- [ghosts](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ghosts)
- [ancestors](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ancestors)
- [Egypt](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/egypt)
- [scultpure](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/scultpure)
- [smell](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/smell)
- [contamination](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/contamination)
- [healing](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/healing)
- [bodies](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/bodies)
- [growth](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/growth)
- [buildings](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/buildings)
- [city](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/city)
- [desert](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/desert)
- [Soil](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/soil)
- [Land politics](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/land-politics)
- [ferment](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ferment)
- [microbial](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/microbial)
- [bokashi](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/bokashi)
- [ecology](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ecology)
- [ocean](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ocean)
- [shellfish](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/shellfish)
- [illness](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/illness)
- [exposure](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/exposure)
- [dye](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/dye)
- [plant](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/plant)
- [rock](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rock)
- [fabric](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fabric)
- [salvage](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/salvage)
- [entanglement](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/entanglement)
- [method](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/method)
- [fungus](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fungus)
- [SCOBY](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/scoby)
- [Kombucha](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/kombucha)
- [process](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/process)
- [crops](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/crops)
- [Linnaeus](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/linnaeus)
- [land](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/land)
- [herbicides](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/herbicides)
- [drinks](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/drinks)
- [MyVillages](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/myvillages)
- [extract](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/extract)
- [Orkney](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/orkney)
- [Kenya](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/kenya)
- [capitalism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/capitalism)
- [archives](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/archives)
- [podcast](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/podcast)
- [growing](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/growing)
- [bread](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/bread)
- [Baking](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/baking)
- [Biodiversity](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/biodiversity)
- [Cereal](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cereal)
- [cartography](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cartography)
- [atlas](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/atlas)
- [Tania Kovats](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/tania-kovats)
- [coronavirus](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/coronavirus)
- [Covid-19](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/covid-19)
- [pandemic](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/pandemic)
- [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rainer-maria-rilke)
- [play](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/play)
- [lockdown](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/lockdown)
- [Boccaccio](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/boccaccio)
- [dendrochronology](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/dendrochronology)
- [fascism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fascism)
- [Sergey Kishchenko](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sergey-kishchenko)
- [South Africa](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/south-africa)
- [queer](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/queer)
- [Cipher Press](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/cipher-press)
- [essay](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/essay)
- [gardening](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/gardening)
- [virus](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/virus)
- [homelessness](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/homelessness)
- [labour](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/labour)
- [work](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/work)
- [earth](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/earth)
- [artist](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/artist)
- [Caribbean](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/caribbean)
- [Jamaica](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/jamaica)
- [slavery](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/slavery)
- [Carrribbean](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/carrribbean)
- [legend](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/legend)
- [Dunbar](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/dunbar)
- [Ethiopia](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/ethiopia)
- [Amharic](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/amharic)
- [artist residency](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/artist-residency)
- [Rosa Farber](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rosa-farber)
- [activism](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/activism)
- [protest](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/protest)
- [Norman Lewis](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/norman-lewis)
- [land art](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/land-art)
- [apples](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/apples)
- [intervention](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/intervention)
- [LGBTQI+](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/lgbtqi)
- [pollution](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/pollution)
- [poison](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/poison)
- [toxicity](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/toxicity)
- [zoology](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/zoology)
- [moon](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/moon)
- [power](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/power)
- [rural](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rural)
- [grief](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/grief)
- [Odilon Redon](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/odilon-redon)
- [Mother's Day](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mothers-day)
- [taxidermy](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/taxidermy)
- [Claire Morgan](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/claire-morgan)
- [fatberg](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/fatberg)
- [audio](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/audio)
- [Eduardo Kohn](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/eduardo-kohn)
- [Hilda Hilst](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/hilda-hilst)
- [Richard Sennett](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/richard-sennett)
- [geology](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/geology)
- [Jussi Kivi](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/jussi-kivi)
- [exploration](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/exploration)
- [Marisol Malatesta](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/marisol-malatesta)
- [seaweed](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/seaweed)
- [coast](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/coast)
- [folklore](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/folklore)
- [Mali](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/mali)
- [relgion](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/relgion)
- [television](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/television)
- [rats](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rats)
- [sport](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sport)
- [map](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/map)
- [identity](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/identity)
- [sounds](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/sounds)
- [Kathrin Böhm](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/kathrin-bohm)
- [planting](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/planting)
- [train](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/train)
- [beans](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/beans)
- [Stonehenge](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/stonehenge)
- [Tessa Berring](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/tessa-berring)
- [George Mackay Brown](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/george-mackay-brown)
- [essays](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/essays)
- [air](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/air)
- [rabbits](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/rabbits)
- [chickens](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/chickens)
- [Linnea Ryshke](https://thelearnedpig.org/tag/linnea-ryshke)