This visual essay draws on a long-term collaborative project contemplating the cultural and ecological presence of piñon pine in the southwestern United States. As artists, researchers and educators, we share our methodological intentions for grappling with the ongoing loss of an essential community member due to anthropogenic climate change, including learning to read a landscape with polytemporality and ‘composting’ as a material-discursive process of artmaking.
Zollinger et al. (Sun,) studied this question.