June 2023

	The Contrarian - EAB-61 All the pathways ran in one direction indicating a nest & consensus, except there was one burrow that cut completely across the others. The sides were sharper, the walls steeper. Someone had other ideas and they needed to be expressed. The bite marks showed anger that spoke volumes about...
6.1.2023

	Inner critic of the inner bark : a set of tentative but distinctly personal marks helped us identify an author struggling for a voice
6.2.2023

	The bark tore away. As I lifted the log a burst of wood dust sat in the air and the unusual pattern registered in my mind. Copious marks, undeniably intentional. Were they only larval residue or a form of writing? Were messages hidden inside the tree?
6.3.2023

	Segmentation and consumption of an ash tree's living tissue is the writing process of the emerald author
6.4.2023

	Ash bark #35-b To uncover examples of ash borer writing, I began sketching unusual looking channels. After several days I paid less attention to the channels and more to the in between shapes. In one of those shapes I recognized the image of a woodpecker, a natural predator of the ash borer. Therolinguistic Field report #23
6.5.2023

	Knowing I exist I move within my sustenance Fearing the woodpecker Curled I stay safe
6.6.2023

	Drifting smoke from fires near Quebec filled the air with a dystopian orange haze. The strange light brought me into the woods where I discovered two more dead ash trees, upping the total to five, leafless in summer, standing side by side, needing to be cut down so they don't fall on the studio.
6.7.2023

	A living sheath inside tree bark, phloem and xylem cells are rivers of fluids and nutrients. Dead phloem cells become bark, xylem cells heartwood. This liminal space is an emerald ash borer garden of eden, a paradise in which newborn larvae feast and create.
6.8.2023

	The writing found inside the bark of the ash tree contains the multi-threaded stories of insect authors, dying species, thoughts of investigative therolinguists, householders barely coping, living in constantly shifting environments, individuals, embracing impermanence, and waking up to the magnitude of the moment.
6.9.2023

	Simultaneous stories of trees dying and insects thriving
6.10.2023

	My initial assumption, that insect intelligence functioned like human intelligence, was wrong. Because I began by believing that I was looking for an individual beetle that had a singular voice, I failed to appreciate how insects live dependently and how much of the writing is collectively authored.
6.11.2023

	A typical emerald ash borer story, each path detailing a larval life, collectively the death of the tree
6.12.2023

	"I'm not alone here. Through thin walls, I feel the vibrations of the other larvae hatched from the same batch of eggs. Sometimes we cross paths or collide, vying for space and resources within the ash tree, often engaging in battles for dominance." -group 4 translation (2016) from bite patterns on sample 24-b
6.13.2023

	The paths created by Ash Borer larvae are called galleries
6.14.2023

	Galleries of a mature infestations are more paths than phloem
6.15.2023

	Shapes carved in bark tell a story of survival
6.16.2023

	Confusing data and information
6.17.2023

	Gaps appearing in the canopy
6.18.2023

	Imagine a place where awareness is concentrated enough to distort the fabric of consciousness, forming a well that functions like a gravity well, but instead of attracting matter, attracts mind.
6.19.2023

	Chapters of the story are written on the trunk
6.20.2023

	The project involves equal parts close examination and broad imagination
6.21.2023

	Brainstorming about larval experiences and world views: emphasis on touch, very little light, pathways as road signs, reading is tactile, messages in movements, the literature of scents, and transformation to adulthood means redemption not death.
6.22.2023

	rivercurrents of larval lives crisscrossing under the bark
6.23.2023

	Heard about some hipster ash trees that took pride in showing off their galleries
6.24.2023

	Walking along the road today, I stopped to pull back some bark and revealed deep scars
6.25.2023

	Circulating air, water, and soil, Emerging as an ash tree, Transforming to food and fuel, Returning ash to ashes.
6.26.2023

	Larval borers interact with the phloem of the ash tree like discordant waves crashing on the shores of now leaving trails of one inside the other
6.27.2023

	Drawing from life and falling in love with the pencil
6.28.2023

	Naturemind intertwine
6.29.2023

	Exploring a new relationship
6.30.2023