Diane di Prima’s ‘Revolutionary Letters,’ first published in 1971, consider themes of utopia, anarchy, and ecological harmony as a means of navigating institutional deterioration and  disparity.

The way in which Di Prima’s work outlines strategies for care, mutual aid, and community support serve as a conceptual scaffold for the different approaches of ceramic practices by Anais Franco, Maddy Inez Leeser, & Saint Yocom.

As individuals living under systems of bureaucracy and economies of attention and optimization, we’ve fallen out of touch with the ways in which we can best care for ourselves and one another. Franco, Leeser, and Yocom consider the matrices of these systems in the context of past civilizations, our dependence on modern utilities, the threat of large-scale natural disaster, the monetization of healing and alternative methodologies of plant medicine, the trajectory of invasive plant life and how our knowledge, or lack there of positions us in an ever-interconnected world underscored by a culture of deep isolation.