All giclées ship flat between repurposed cardboard, in a protective seaweed-based sleeve. I print with archival ink on a special printer in my studio, on beautiful recycled Speckletone coverstock, or sometimes hemp-based coverstock, from multi-generation Michigan-based company French Paper Co. (a hydropowered mill, with a fish ladder installed at their dam.)
Fire is essential to the indigenous land-management wisdom from humans who have lived for thousands of years in present-day California. With fire, those lineages maintained home and culture from salt-marsh to old-growth forest, prairie to high desert. Places on earth tended thoughtfully and continuously by their traditional stewards tend to be abundant in foods, ample materials for crafts, tools, and shelter, which allowed for the sustained coexistence of myriad species.
The wildfires of this era are the result of the removal of the traditional stewards of these landscapes. Industrial clearcutting leaves piles of brushy debris, and encourages overwhelming growth of small, crowded shrubs and young trees. Many will die from the crowding, creating even more tinder for out-of-control fires. Controlled, thoughtful burning, regenerative forestry that focuses on building soil and plant diversity, and is selective about timber harvests, has always shown great promise for mitigating the worst of natural disasters, and providing plenty for many.
We are long overdue in turning toward the indigenous stewards, still very much alive the earth over, for leadership on how to bring ourselves into balance, and our mis-managed landscapes along with us.
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