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Here's my final Harbour Walls print. Yes I gave it a name. I think this is a pretty accurate representation of the colours.

There are 24 in the edition and it will be available in my shop later today.

It's easily my most ambitious print to date, in fact my next few will be half the number of layers. My son kept telling me that 12 layers was too many and I should reduce them.

A 12 layer screen print of a harbour in an abstract style

The world’s fourth mass is underway, but well-connected may have a better chance to recover https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-fourth-mass-coral-bleaching-is-underway-but-well-connected-reefs-may-have-a-better-chance-to-recover-230755

" remain healthier and recover faster if they are surrounded by that eat different types of , such as , and . also are important reef partners. They feed on and other organic materials in ocean sediments, cleaning up the area around ."

underwater photo of a sea cucumber on the sea floor

Happy birthday to Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become a full professor on Stanford's biology faculty. 🧵1/n

Linocut portrait of Isabella Aiona Abbott in indigo on cream coloured paper. She’s facing forward at a table in a shirt and sweater vest with a sheet with algae samples on the table. In my print, she is surrounded by algae of the Pacific, all of which appeared in Abbott's research publications, including several species she discovered, or based on images of specimen she personally collected or whose traditional use as food she documented. The algae are in pinks, khaki green and rust.

Secrets of : Scientists advance knowledge of causing chaos in the Caribbean and West Africa
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-secrets-sargassum-scientists-advance-knowledge.html paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2312173121

"floating mats of sargassum have long been present in the North . However, since 2011, a population has established between West Africa and South America, and increased in size to form 'the great Atlantic sargassum belt'—a 9,000km-long bloom, visible from space and estimated to weigh 35 million tons."

Photo of a Jamaican beach covered in seaweed

Buried : seaweed carried to the stores more carbon than we thought https://theconversation.com/buried-kelp-seaweed-carried-to-the-deep-sea-stores-more-carbon-than-we-thought-228888

export from forests to deep ocean sinks: Karen Filbee-Dexter et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01449-7

"coastal vegetation such as seaweed forests are more important to natural carbon storage than we thought. Around 56 million tonnes of carbon in the form of seaweed is carried into the each year"

underwater photo of large seaweed and small fish

The Women Who Found Liberation in : How a Shared Love of got a Community of Women Hooked on Marine Science https://nautil.us/the-women-who-found-liberation-in-seaweed-540250/

"European algae mania began in the 1750s... Women were in on it from the beginning. But over time, sea emerged as a unique locus of opportunity for female natural historians, who were barred from major scientific societies... Women who caught the bug tried to spread the word to other women... Soon, a kind of subculture sprouted."

old illustration of seaweed

, , and : ’s waters teem with life – could a farm ban do the same for Chile? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/09/crabs-kelp-and-mussels-argentina-waters-teem-with-life-can-a-fish-farm-ban-do-the-same-for-chile

"In 2021, the provincial government voted to ban intensive in Argentinian waters... Everything in the sea has benefited... from the crabs to the ; they all depend on a healthy ... But in neighbouring , the same protection does not exist. Things drastically changed over the years with the arrival of this industry"

person carrying 2 large red crabs in a small fishing harbor


For my new I wanted to make some , inspired by one of my students, but I didn't have a thin crochet hook, but I do have a , so I my seaweed on heavy and ripped it off


seaweed embroidery on tracing paper
seaweed embroidery on tracing paper
seaweed embroidery on tracing paper
seaweed embroidery on tracing paper

quoted Desierto by Anònimo

Anònimo: Desierto (Spanish language, 2019, Editorial Descontrol)

La revolución anarquista global no va a suceder. El cambio climático es imparable. No vamos …

Ni nosotras ni nadie puede crear un futuro libertario y ecológico de la sociedad mundial mediante la mera expansión de movimientos sociales. Más aún, no hay razón para pensar que sin una expansión de esas dimensiones, puede llegar a haber una transformación de la sociedad mundial que concuerde con nuestros deseos. Como anarquistas no somos “la semilla de la sociedad futura en las entrañas de la vieja”, sino simplemente otro de los tantos elementos que forman el futuro. Cuando nos enfrentamos a tal escala de complejidad, hay cierto valor en la humildad no servil, incluso para las insurgentes.

Abandonar la esperanza de una revolución anarquista mundial no significa resignarse a que la anarquía se perpetúe como una protesta eterna.

Seaweed lo explica bien:

La revolución no está en todos lados ni en ningún lugar. Cualquier bioregión puede ser liberada por medio de una sucesión de eventos y estrategias basadas en las condiciones que le son particulares, en especial cuando la civilización retrocede intencionalmente o pierde control gracias a los esfuerzos de sus habitantes. (...) La civilización no triunfó en todos lados a la vez y, de la misma forma, su desmantelamiento solo ocurrirá en varios niveles en distintos lugares y a distinto tiempo. Incluso si un área se encuentra, en apariencia, bajo el control absoluto de la autoridad, siempre habrá lugares a donde ir para vivir, para amar y para resistir desde allí. Podemos expandir esos lugares.

La situación mundial puede parecer fuera de nuestro alcance, pero la realidad local nunca lo está. Afortunadamente, el hecho de que seamos anarquistas no nos vuelve impotentes por completo ni potencialmente omnipotentes.

— Desierto by 

#Libros #Cita #Anarquismo #Desierto #Seaweed

We were delighted to work on this important project, that aims to reduce barriers to seaweed cultivation in Wales. 🌊🦭 https://projectmadoc.cymru/

Wales has a brilliant opportunity to develop long-term, sustainable industries based on seaweed cultivation in some of our coastal communities. This report is a significant step in demonstrating how some of the existing barriers can be tackled 👏✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@wales

The homepage of project madoc, with a series of menu items at the top, a picture of seaweed underwater as the background, and the header text saying "how viable is an industry based on cultivated seaweed for Wales?"