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💧Viewing the river variously in Memphis last weekend with a truly inspiring group of activists, artists, writers, water keepers, makers, dreamers, learners, community organizers, creative practitioners, stewards, friends, collaborators -past, present and future. This confluence gathering felt like a safe space to examine accessibility to water and its complicated meander as its moves from wildland to petrochemical corridor. Meeting with stewards and organizers from the headwaters to the gulf south activated a sense of flow and connectivity between our projects and aspirations.

When you think about it, it’s only the land that divides us…the water keeps all…I’ve often thunk about vessels as Ursula k Leguin wrote in her essay; as one of the first forms of human technology and its relationship to the body/womb/sustenance/regeneration.

Now I am thinking of water as a formless vessel, one that keeps memories. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊Tears, rain, what our bodies create and what comes from the sky. In each drop is the gentle reflection of today as well as our stories of the past, not all is lost.💧 by @sam_in_place

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Successional Plan studies for dry highlands agroforestry along Rio Papalotla, Mexico.

A treat to collaborate with @jose_ten @samps.kait by @sam_in_place

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Glancing around corners in the UK with an esteemed guide, I spent many pleasurable wet flowery walks under grey skies. Long managed landscapes particularly thick with material detail, massaged into contemporary use or left to moulder until next time. “Peeling back layers and to what era?” was a good common thread in discussion whilst walking commons, rewilding projects, churchyards and cobblestone alleys, as if the ship can be guided or coursed in the pendulum’s swing. I tip towards yes, optimist I am. The corner is never not to be turned. by @sam_in_place

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Remembering the richness of our semester with Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich. The Texcoco semester framed current climate issues within social landscapes so deeply. Thankful for all the activists, artists, farmers, knowledge keepers, and those who know the land by walking. Thankful for my cohort and wishing everyone the best in the next steps! @washu.landscapearchitecture by @sam_in_place

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3 years ago

Land studies of late 🍁🍂🍄 by @sam_in_place

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A day and a half of our adventures as a studio around the Texcoco basin. Rising early we visited an illegal mine site which exposed richly red soil amidst the high altitude blues and greens of nopal and and salvia. Wildlife buzzed along despite the gashes, hummingbirds drinking from cuphea in the morning light at the edge of a precipice. Next we visited a local curandero who keeps watch over a rare spring in the highlands. From the mouth of the spring within a natural grotto, he heals people by communicating with the spirits who live at his spring pools. As water leaves his spring, aqueducts guide the water through the landscape without allowing ground infiltration, while some water is piped underground for local consumption. A ramble along the cascade from this spring shows how quickly waters are subdivided and directed. A final stop for the day to Nezahuaycoyotl Baths revealed an ancient context for water in a high altitude basin. Capture and keep, then expertly direct what must escape expediently- with priorities for pleasure or for food production. The next morning, we began by visiting a family of highland maguey farmers, who showed us immense hospitality and an insight into the devotional requirements to meet the complexities for dry land farming. @washu.landscapearchitecture by @sam_in_place

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I really believe in planting medicine into home gardens. The healing comes from not just making medicine but developing a relationship with each plant and it’s characteristics. Everyday I am swept away by the vast knowledge each plant contains and it’s ability to pass this on to those that lean in and listen. A whisper of pollen is a daily kiss I won’t ever step away from. Heart full of love 💚💚💛💛🧡🧡 1 and 2) Saint Johns wort 3) Lady’s mantle, licorice and wormwood 4) rose, violets and more artemisia 5) elderberry 6) lemon balm 7) Stridolo 8) Sweetgrass and salvia by @sam_in_place

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Public parks in St. Louis carry stories like invisible grids of time and space, a spectral lattice of life and death. Registers of daily life and happenings, of leisure, of terrible history and celebration, of memorial, of the permanent and the impermanent, some made in part from the materials of the mounds from ancestors of this landscape. How different it looks: at times perverse, at times the fecundity so visible and reciprocal. Spending time in telescoping scalar observation has rewarded me (interested skeptic) with post-public park awarenesses. 1) Ivory Perry Park “ufo pavilion” with burning house. 2) @ravenchcn “Music for 13 paths” at Benton Park - sound shifting space/use. 3) Bellerive Park- digging clay for experimental firings with @prdlarija 4) Missouri Botanical Garden- not public by any means but certainly a site for historical inventory alongside the more obvious botanical inventory. Here an old crab apple blooms over whoknowswhat memory. 5) Up close hawthorn in Forest Park. One of Olmsted’s legacy designs now in some new iteration next to a golf course. by @sam_in_place

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Colores mexicanos: a demonstration of care and adventure in public space. A whole collective sensation by way of being physically immersed in the visual expression of heat, movement, rhythm and mutuality. 🟣💓🔴💛🟠🤎⚪️🖤🔵💚 by @sam_in_place

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Limestone pocket ecologies and powercuts. The powercut is like a linear clear cut, creating forest edge conditions within broad woodland mosaics. These open spaces are large seed banks, with dominating colonizer species on the surface layer. Who knows what lies beneath. Just beyond the reach of this particular powercut limestone bluffs harbor native woodland pocket ecologies. Subsisting on very little soil, these plants benefit from the other qualities of limestone. The symbiotic relation provides high nutrient availability and water retention for the dispersed and anchored. I’ve always wondered how it would feel to live in a a pocket ecology. Seen here: Polystichum acrostichoides, Aslplenium rhizophyllum, Phegopteris hexagonoptera, Huechera americana, Aquelegia canadensis, and a few I don’t know yet. by @sam_in_place

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Just south of the cobblestone landing at the national park of the arch is a quilted landscape of dumped cement, concrete, gravel and whoknowswhat. I find this terrain far more provocative than the arch grounds. The where and the why trickle into the Mississippi River and keep moving downstream without anyone noticing or answering. by @sam_in_place

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East Saint Louis infrastructure: post productive landscapes and comparative land use across the Mississippi. A much more tangible historical relation than the West Bank however only the most recent colonial layer is visible. The soil is scattered with embedded memories of native civilizations whose physical presence has been leveled to make space for industrial projects. The knowledge of how to live with this flood plain condition is floating and stuck in the materials and atmosphere, unseen but felt. by @sam_in_place

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