Commissioned by Maternal Mitochodria, the poetry sequence "constellation for an unknown place" is installed for the 2025 season in their spirit house public sculpture art walk in Santa Fe, NM.

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This project proposed working, speculatively and from a distance, with the New Mexico landscape, including flora and fauna distinctive to Santa Fe - juniper, piñon, jay, and the constellations in the night sky overhead - to discover what might emerge when writing-with these beings and the place they inhabit. The challenge of writing-with a place, and in particular a landscape, that is unknown to me, allowed for experimental writing methods which included elements of visual poetry that emerged through experimentation with Morse Code. 

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The resulting four-poem sequence has been printed onto handmade suminagashi (Japanese paper marbling) created by Isabel Winson-Sagan (one half of Maternal Mitochondria). The prospect of sharing my work with a public audience is a distinct honour, as I am especially interested in writing poetry for the purpose of it being encountered ‘in the wild’.​

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Gratitude to Miriam Sagan and Isabel Winson-Sagan for their support and generous encouragement throughout this project.