SHORT PAPER. As biocentrism is increasingly seen as unjustifiable, artists and environmental humanities scholars become more attentive to feedback between minerals and (non)human life. First, I discuss the urgent need to reinvent narratives and create new vocabulary about the abundance of life-mineral connections as presented by Mabe Bethônico in her Stone Statements Editions, which focused on developing "a vocabulary of proximity." Next, I analyze Magdalena Abakanowicz’s artwork Space of Unknown Growth, investigating emerging material relations between concrete (an anthropogenic rock) and nonhuman life. I argue that rather than limiting the environment to a symbiotic community, these artworks encourage the curiosity and attention necessary to embrace mineral-life connections and envision more inclusive communities of the future.
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