Vernal pull

About this book

"The thesis proposes a landscape practice for accessing the rhythms of animal life in a coastal forest on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. The artful clearing of trees, soil, and stone stimulates change in the post-glacial terrain; a method for calling attention to animal encounters. The script for cultivating these circular clearings suggests multiple futures that draw the mythical and ecological into conversation. By recalling the history of an early 20th century naturalist who studied animal life in this forest, the project revives a practice for gardeners, naturalists, poets, and mystics -- the nature fakers -- who argue that close observation and the imagination are essential to the opening of human animal dualities." -- Page [4]