For many of us on the Snake River Plain and beyond, relations with the living world have been broken, and replaced with connection to cultural forms that serve to deepen that divide. ‘nest’ is a place where we can go about restoring our awareness of how interwoven we are; identifying the forces that have broken our bonds with the living earth; and creating tools for emplaced inhabitation. 

Relations with earth, both practical and spiritual exist in every intact culture on the planet, but so many of us have never had the opportunity, guidance, or the support to build deep, knowing relations with the vast webs that sustain life on earth. We think that there is still time to connect in ways that span species, earthly entities, and timescales. By tuning in curiously and actively to the stories of this place, we seek to repair broken relations and re-engage with the living world. 

‘nest’ wishes to offer a place to come to where broken relations can be taken as opportunities to renew connection with the living world. It takes time to listen enough to reconnect; to ground down through awareness of the dynamics of place; and to invite new ways of knowing. What would you do with an opportunity to shift into a mode that prioritizes those acts?