Popularizing a systems approach to culture will take a while. I’ve begun to sketch out a roadmap knowing it may take lifetimes to explore, create, and ground-truth at any scale.
why I care
Some of you may be curious about the inspiration or motivations behind this website.
I have a background as an artist, community activist, puppeteer, nonprofit director, consultant and public speaker, house painter and bread & butter factory worker, among other things. I've split my time between the US and South America (Venezuela as a kid, Ecuador after college) and now live in the occupied part of the planet local Ohlone people call Huichin (Oakland), California.
For over a decade I advocated for and shared information about art and ecology internationally. I thought it was the future of art and I was passionate about what it could do to help heal communities and ecosystems. Over time, I became disillusioned about the nonprofit sector, the embedded injustices and constraints of our political and economic systems, and how terribly limited the numerous projects we encountered and celebrated on greenmuseum•org actually were once I began to consider them more deeply…