Embodied Forest 2021

UPDATE 11/18/22: The first edition SOLD OUT earlier this year and PRE-ORDERS for a second edition were taken for up to 50 copies, printed November 2022. We currently have just a few copies available for sale and will continue taking pre-orders to do a third printing for 2023 (goal of 50 orders). Embodied Forest, Fall 2021 268-pages, annual online exhibition + book First Edition, 150 copies Second Edition, 50 copies Printing by Greenerprinter, Point Richmond, California USA Published by ecoartspace Of the 191 ecoartspace members who applied, ninety artists were selected by guest juror Lilian Fraiji, curator of LABVERDE based in Brazil. Countries represented by 17 of the Embodied Forest artists outside the United States include Brazil, England, Sweden, Australia, Belgium, and Germany. The range of topics addressed is vast, including breath, wildfires, birds, fungi, logging, growth rings, transpiration, mycorrhizal networks, canopy shyness, reciprocity, rights of nature, colonial and capitalist extraction/ white supremacy, the sonification of trees, symbiotic relationships, trees as bioindicators, tree as medicines, beetle infestations, migrations of tree habitat, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural burns. Guest essays by Ruth Wallen, Kim Abeles, Sant Khalsa, Tim Collins and Rekio Goto, Aviva Rahmani, Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, and Susan Leibovitz Steinman. Additional essays by Lilian Fraiji, Sant Khalsa, and Patricia Watts. Front cover: Carol Paquet, Shrouded Green, 2020; photo collage, 70 x 40 inches Back cover: Laura Gorski, Sprout in the Encounter, 2021 (detail); earth and leaves on paper, 50 x 70 inches Edited by Patricia Watts Design by Brett Yasko Typeface: NeueHaas This book is made with paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), which ensures responsible forest management. FSC is nongovernmental, non-profit organization that promotes the responsible management of the world’s forests.