Clorofilia Magazine

Magazine of Plant and Ecology related Comics Issue 1 Fall 2014 Contributions by: Amara Leipzig, Asa Jones, Ben Passmore, Caesar Meadows, Caienna Birwerth, Danielle Chenette, Eric Brookens, Evelyn Salguero, Isabella Rotman, Kim Wayman, George, Kira and Tassie Mardikes, Megan Diddie, Megan Lavender Petri, Mich Artega, Sam Hubert, Sean Hernandez, Sun-EE, Talya Modlin, and Vreni Edited by Kira Mardikes

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Sunflower by Kira Mardikes

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Bumble Tales is a story following Dusty Flora and Bandita and their search for nectar and pollen in a neightborhood without many flowers! Family-friendly, 12 pages, black and white with information on Pacific Northwest plants and bees in the back. Written and Lettered by Tara Mardikes. Illustrated by Kira Mardikes.

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There’s so much to know about the cattail!

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Tilly's Cattail page!

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Special Intelligence, Kim Wayman

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Chemical Scream Vreni Stollberger

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Savta's Cypresses Talya Modlin 2014

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Clover and Milk Thistle 

Kira Mardikes

2014

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New Release of CLOROFILIA Magazine!  A collection of plant and ecology inspired comics and art from US and Mexico!

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Colonies of Growing Bacteria Make Psychedelic Art

Israeli physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob uses bacteria as an art medium, shaping colonies in petri dishes into bold patterns

Bacterial Art, hell yah!

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Seed Saving

Estancia, NM 2013

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Hello Everybody!  

Check out my kickstarter video for the printing of Clorofilia Magazine!  This year I organized the first issue of a magazine of comics by American and Mexican artists about plants medicine and food. I plan on printing it sustainably and distributing it across the country. Help make this a reality and receive your own copy and art by donating! 

Thanks :)

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Successfully Funded :D

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See ya there, at a cool breezy island amongst the swarms!

Nov. 15 - Seattle

Will be tabling with Oregon Evergreen

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Wonderful weekend set up trading and selling, what an awesome scene!

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Sun Opener by Tassie Mardikes

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Lady Ellhorn; A Means To Continue On. Here and now as I reflect upon a life I can remember most clearly, I am stricken by the symbolism that seems to gift voice to a point; I’ve been on the same path all along, my life, and the illusion of divergence from this path is a veil created by the multiplicity of choices that occur through time as I direct my intentions towards the idea of self I wish to manifest in the world. And though sometimes it feels as if these choices create entirely fragmented roads from my origin, I feel now that they all emerge from a part of myself that was self-evident since my birth. As I move further from that beginning I find conclusion in this notion that there is a piece of me that transcends my lifetime, and that whatever that piece may be, it is trying to communicate with me … with all of us. So I find myself in this predicament stewed in a rational world without a rationality to understand my experiences as I occur to them.  Considerable supernatural moments through landscape and dreamscape, past present and future, have rocked my notion of coincidence. I left it broken, but I never cleaned it up either. I decided to walk the line between fate and chance, entertaining both reductionism and the worlds invisible. Yet somehow I can feel that this simple step into new territory has jarred opened such a door in my life. A door into spaces only felt, and never known. The same spaces rendered invisible to the eye, as it is seen with the heart and the mind. I find the idea of these words to be the mother of all belief, and in turn, the heart that nurtures all signs and symbols. I have found the same in me. My life is taking direction by influence of symbols that have reviled themselves to me as a constant. As I turn over to the end of the first beginnings of Lady Ellhorn, I have come to find the Stag has been present in my life since before I was born. And now that I’ve accepted it as a spirit I wish to channel and learn from, I see and epic shift in my life I don’t quite know how to explain in words. Lady Ellhorn begins to awake in me the frame of my understanding. I am the Hunter; I represent humanity. The Stag is the symbol for the spirit of the wild. The Mourning Fairy over the dead Stag is the symbol for the death of the sacred. The Wednesday I presented my project was the full moon. That night I did a Tarot Card pulling thinking about what I stated above. The card I pulled was 9 of Swords. On the card was the painting of a forest with many armored men standing within it. At the edge of the forest there was a dead horse with a sword in the exact same place I drew the arrow that killed the stag in Lady Ellhorn. Over the dead horse was a woman mourning, her hair long and black … I ask myself if I believe in mystic worlds. If I believe in spirits or demons or angels. I still don’t know, nor do I think I’ll ever know. I suppose its part of me to not be so convinced of any way of thinking that I will let any way prevent thinking. But … It doesn’t change that fact that these are the things I am being faced with, and the words of the mystics seem to provide my heart with light.

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Eric's Beautiful Lady Ellhorn Comic