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urgetocreate

Alice Dalton Brown (American b.1939), Summer Breeze, 1995, Oil on linen, 50 in. x 70.25 in

lostfunzones

Joel Sternfeld - Lake Oswego, Oregon, 1979.

ouuaghh

Natuilidae vs Sepiidae

Nautilidae

Sepiidae

Voting ended onJul 23

Nautilidae: Nautilus

Sepiidae: Cuttlefish

#2 hard

memorycycle

hush little baby dont you cry. mamas gonna buy you a big horse fly. and if that big horse fly dont fly. mamas gonna buy you another horse fly

memorycycle

[club mix] another horse fly. another horse fly

oddarette

Windex Xenomorph

Windex Xenomorph 💦

sakrogoat

Hermann Rüdisühli - Brandopfer am Zypressenhain

theinternetarchive

knitted textures from 'the encyclopedia of knitting,' lesley stanfield and melody griffith, pub. 2000.

diana-andraste

Diana the Huntress, Jacqueline Rau, 1926

urgetocreate

Wendy Mould (British b.1958), A Midsummer's Night Dream, Oil on linen

headspace-hotel

Seems legit

headspace-hotel

we all hear about kudzu being introduced as "erosion control" in the South but I don't think contemporary people understand on a gut level what that means

these are images from a 1930s pamphlet that endorsed kudzu, entitled "stop gullies: save your farm"

It was Bad.

headspace-hotel

Invasive plants need to be understood as part of a much larger cycle of incredible violence against the land.

peat-moss-and-starlight

For context: erosion on that scale occurred as a result of our clear-cutting entire states. The land east of the Mississippi used to be covered in old-growth forest to an extent that we literally can’t imagine anymore, because most of us have never seen a forest over 100 years old. It turns out if you remove all vegetation from a landscape, you end up with a bunch of loose soil ready to move downstream. A fast-growing plant that covers everything in dense vegetation sounds like salvation when you’re surrounded by 40-foot deep gullies that get wider with every rainstorm.

epicyurian

A lot of the south too was covered in Canebreaks, basically bamboo forests like a lot of South Asia, I don't know the specifics of the ecology, but bamboo being a grass I assume is rhizomatic like other grasses and forms a big net of roots that prevent erosion. *I assume* (pleez ecologists weigh in)

headspace-hotel

Yes, the destruction of Canebrakes was a direct cause of this erosion we see here. Canebrakes were destroyed, using slave labor, to make room for cotton plantations. You can read about it here.

Canebrakes built up incredibly rich, fertile soil and are amazing at preventing erosion. They form incredibly strong mats of rhizomes. And their roots are known to go 10 feet deep into the soil.

The erosion we see in these pictures was a result, very much directly, of the Canebrakes being destroyed.

headspace-hotel

This is a case study in how violence against ecosystems goes so closely hand in hand with violence against people. The violence against the indigenous caretakers of the land, and the violence against the enslaved captives that were forced to clear the Rivercane and work the cotton fields that would degrade the soil into nothing.