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It was during one of those other surreal moments in time, when (forgive me the big word) the Anthropocene came crashing into my life, wrenching emotions out of the rational awareness I’ve had for years: We are in an age of great uncertainty. And things are happening to the biosphere. Stranded in the drought and ranging wildfires of the summer of 2018, not knowing what to do with all the tangents and unclosed parentheses left by my one-year-seminar and the yellow grass, the heat, and the fires, fires, fires. I needed another outlet then too, something to balance the budding Academic. I thought: Dress what I feel in something simple and familiar. I had an idea. And then, I never found the time. Now is the time.

Photo: Scentless mayweed and nettles in Bergius Botanic Garden, Stockholm, June 2018. Posted on Instagram April 2, 2020.