This is a space for brain dumps; thoughtful essays; conversations with friends; film photography; and playful exploration. Guided by critical and curious thinking about people, power, and the planet. My formal studies in both Anthropology and Marine Biology speak to a love for learning about the way(s) of the world, understanding complexity, and big picture thinking. Questions regarding what I wanted to be growing up were shrouded in ambivalence. My seeming inability to choose a single degree, or job, or career path, evinces my disdain for absoluteness, monolithic thinking, and convention.
I grew up enchanted by the orca, the relationship(s) between people and the sea, magical tales, the otherworldliness of the bush, and imaginary worlds. Stepping into adolescence I became absorbed by political thought, reading broadly, subalternity, and I suppose what I now understand to be structural violence or inequality. For several years I danced between jobs, countries, degrees, dreams, and versions of self until I sat through my first anthropology class and began to feel less lonely in my thoughts. As a student of both Marine Biology and Anthropology, fisheries became a central point of convergence. Through fisheries I’ve explored power dynamics, trade and exchange, dynamic cultural identities, marine heritage, conflict, geopolitics, ontologies, epistemologies, myth, ritual, the more-than-human, language, foodways, globalisation, climate change, gendered space, labour rights, symbolism, craftmanship, governance. I love it all! But, my anthropological interests go beyond the fish and those that fish.
Softly and slowly, without hurry or excess. They way I choose to move through the world. Or, try to. And so, this project forms part of my slow anthropological practice, and commitment to creativity. I won’t promise perfect prose or regular publication.
