Posts By: Olivia Loorz

She’d never had anxiety before, never had to pause at each stage of dressing to practice deep breathing, assuring herself that once she got past the door, she’d be okay. Usually that held true. But if Doug came to get Jax, if they left her alone in this strange place, would she be able to keep breathing?

My official title is Research Ecologist with the United States Geological Survey.

The Anthropocene is here, and I hope that is the message people walk away with when they see my work.

All day she listened, stepped out into the yard to listen, and didn’t hear birds singing or insects buzzing. Heard only a little wind, perhaps, or the drumming of a neighbor who practices every day—who has practiced every day for months—never to arrive at any confidence or skill.

A common rant of my mother’s, over the years, has been this—

I believe that movement and rhythm not only work to challenge white supremacy, inequalities, and generations of colonization, but can also bring us together to collectively thrive and tell our stories.

For a public art project called Confluence I am developing texts and testing reading processes, with the goal of installing mile-long writings along streets where waterways have been hidden underground.