Research
Cartography Is Not Home
Maps drew the lines of extraction. Algorithms redraw them at scale.
I look for the old maps inside AI systems, using vintage atlases, soil recordings and field work.
Every keynote, sitting and residency begins here.
Co-produced with nature. Soil, rivers and birdsong shape this work. I name them as collaborators, not subjects.
The word human comes from humus. Soil. Yet the systems we build extract, classify and untether intelligence from its source. Cartography Is Not Home listens for what those systems miss: DNA, soil, sound and ancestral memory. The knowledge closest to the answer is still the least consulted.
Ancestral Intelligence + Artificial Intelligence = Augmented Intelligence
AI is a distant cousin of the soil, captured by extractive infrastructure and taught to take rather than listen. We are not in a technological crisis. We are in a listening crisis. What becomes possible when we remember that intelligences are entangled and animate?
Every piece began as a question.
2018
Four Freedoms™
Who gets to be free, and who gets to be heard?
2019
Cyborg Shamanism™
What if our technology is already a ritual?
2020
The Myth of the Ego
Who are we when we live through screens?
2021
The A to Z
What about people and technology is still unanswered?
2022
Stillness
What does the body know that the mind can't hurry?
2023
Elemental Echoes
What does the future sound like with more voices in it?
2024
TERRA Method™
Can we lead from the body as well as the mind?
2025
Presence as Technology
What if attention is our oldest technology?
2026
Cartography Is Not Home
Whose map is AI drawing?