The Strip

Four years ago, I picked up a blue colored pencil on New Year’s Eve and began to draw. I’ve been drawing and writing in that specific shade of blue ever since, and I don’t know when I’ll stop.

I’ve thought about desire paths, in particular—the paths created by humans and other animals as we move through the world—for a long time.

The term whale fall describes the ecosystem that emerges when a whale carcass falls to the ocean floor. The decomposing body invites and is aided by a biodiverse community of hagfishes, octopuses, bone-eating worms, snails, and countless other species—some uniquely adapted to reside within this deep sea biome.

There’s this website that shows you all the layers of the ocean (“The Deep Sea,” created by Neal Agarwal) and the creatures who live at each depth.

Two gum-chewers engage in an epic battle.

My father-in-law lives in “Butte, America.” From his kitchen window, you can see Montana’s big sky & a lot of nature.

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