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Wesleyan's Environmental Arts Magazine
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loamfall 2014
Alison Znamierowski ‘15
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Editors’ Note................................................................................................................................3Artist Statement: Joseph Smolinski.............................................................................................5The Blind Beekeeper by Nick Martino.......................................................................................83URßOH��'DQGDUD�&DWHWH�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Autumn Leaves by Alison Znanmierowski...............................................................................14(DWLQJ�/RFDO��$Q�,QWHUYLHZ�ZLWK�'DQLHOOH�3UXLWW�DQG�-D[LH�)ULHGPDQ�������������������������������������Rick by Nicole Stanton...............................................................................................................21The March by Morgan Hill.......................................................................................................283HRSOH��7KHLU�3ODQWV�E\�6LHQQD�&RXUWHU�DQG�1LFROH�6WDQWRQ��������������������������������������������������$�'UHDP�E\�1RHOOH�+LDP������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������3URßOH��*HQQD�'H*URRW����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Mary & Moon by Kate Weiner..................................................................................................45
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welcome to loam.
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animals tagged with radio tracking devices. These monitored animals range from
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the blind beekeeper
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and husks and husks of paper shells
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to gladful loam
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the cosmos vivid, between the folds
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gold spear, a clever goldenrod
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of whispering prisms and valves
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glisten with resinous propolis. as you
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sending across chambers
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couldn’t quite shake the image of the melting couple. As their soap skins wore away, their
underlying frames poked through. The sense of reemergence—of loss transitioning into
new—was palpable.
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process where I don’t like new stuff because it has so much less history and character in
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score a free bed. And for the installation shown at left, she worked with used furniture to
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autumn leaves
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During a span of thirty days stretching from October to November, Danielle Pruitt and Jaxie
Friedman, both Environmental Studies majors and passionate advocates for food justice,
will be going 100% local: that means everything they eat and drink must be grown within
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be it conversations with nearby farmers or cooking with friends. Below, Danielle and Jaxie
graciously share with us the details of their incredible documentary, from the challenges of
eating local to the amazing projects at play in Middletown to the moonshine made from
N.Y. corn that you can snag at Metro.
On the project and planning:
Danielle: :HÖUH�PDNLQJ�D�GRFXPHQWDU\�RQ�RXU�H[SHULHQFHV�HDWLQJ�D�FRPSOHWHO\�ORFDOO\�������VRXUFHG�GLHW�for thirty days and we’re visiting most of the food sources. The project manifested this summer when I knew ,�ZDQWHG�WR�PDNH�D�GRFXPHQWDU\�IRU�P\�WKHVLV�DQG�,�ZDWFKHG�WKLV�PRYLH��Ø9HJXFDWHG�Ù�ZKHUH�WKH\�JHW�UDQ�dom people to be vegans for a month and I was inspired by that and then I was thinking fast food has been GRQH��YHJDQ�IRRG�KDV�EHHQ�GRQH��ZKDW�DERXW�HDWLQJ�ORFDO"�,V�WKDW�SRVVLEOH"�$QG�REYLRXVO\�WKLV�LV�D�KXJH�XQ�dertaking so I was thinking which one of my friends can take on a project like this and be really committed WR�LW�DQG�-D[LH�ZDV�P\�ßUVW�WKRXJKW�
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On preparing for their thirty day challenge:
Danielle: We got a lot of food in advance. We’ve been doing research for the last month about where to get things and last night we made a hug tub of tomato sauce and squash soup and vegetable broth and we’re IUHH]LQJ�WKDW�VWXII��7KHUH�LV�WKLV�UHDOO\�DPD]LQJ�ZHEVLWH�&7�)DUP�)UHVK�WKDW�GHOLYHUV�IDUP�IUHVK�SURGXFH�WR�your door and we will be getting a lot of our produce from them. We’ll be ordering from then on a biweekly EDVLV�DQG�PD\EH�JRLQJWR�WKH�)DUPHUV�0DUNHW�VRPH�PRUH���
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Jaxie: My thesis is looking at the healing power of food and using a locally sourced diet to heal the environ�ment and to heal humans. Because with processed food, you’ve got a lot of major health issues coming up in America today, so [my thesis is about] looking at the potential [of different consumption patterns] to heal, QRW�KHDO���LWÖV�DERXW�DQDO\]LQJ�WKH�KHDOWK�FRQFHUQV�UHODWHG�WR�JRLQJ�ORFDO��:HÖUH�UHDOO\�OXFN\��(YHU\RQH�KDV�EHHQ�VXSHU�VXSSRUWLYH��:KHQ�,�ßUVW�EURXJKW�WKLV�LGHD�XS�WR�3URIHVVRU�5RXVH��ZKR�LV�WKH�KHDG�RI�WKH�6FL�ence in Society Program, it was not even in my realm of consciousness [that he would approve this idea for my thesis]. I honestly thought it was going to get shut down right away, and he was super supportive. He WKRXJKW�WKDW�LW�ZRXOG�EH�D�JUHDW�H[SORUDWLRQ�RI�KRZ�WKHUH�DUH�VR�PDQ\�GLHW�IDGV�WKDW�KDSSHQ�WRGD\��DQG�D�ORW�of people write about them don’t necessarily take it into practice. Our thirty day challenge is creating a way for me to take my theoretical thesis and make it more concrete in reality.
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Jaxie: Especially because there is a distinction between eating locally grown and locally made products. A lot of products that are manufactured and marketed as local, you don’t necessarily know where the ingredi�HQWV�DUH�DFWXDOO\�FRPLQJ�IURP��7KDWÖV�EHHQ�RQH�RI�RXU�PDMRU�GLIßFXOWLHV�
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Jaxie: 2QH�RWKHU�WKLQJ�WKDW�KDV�EHHQ�LQWHUHVWLQJ�LV�WKDW�ZH�GR�ßQG�WKRVH�JHPV�RI�SHRSOH�ZKR�DUH�UHDOO\�VXSSRUWLQJ�WKH�ORFDO�PRYHPHQW��)RU�LQVWDQFH��ZH�UHFHQWO\�IRXQG�WKLV�ZRPDQ�ZKR�JURZV�KHU�RZQ�KHUEV�DQG�she really tries to grow everything in her own garden, but even in that case, she was talking about how her parsley and cilantro didn’t grow very well this year so all of her dried herb blends she makes she had to RXWVRXUFH�WR�JHW�LW��6KH�KDSSHQHG�WR�ßQG�WKLV�FRPSDQ\�LQ�2UHJRQ�WKDW�VKHÖV�WDONHG�ZLWK�JUHDWO\�DQG�WKH\�produce their stuff in an incredibly sustainable and ethical way, but it’s interesting because you don’t really WKLQN�DERXW�WKH�IDFW�WKDW�>ORFDO@�LV�FRPSOLFDWHG��(YHQ�LI�\RX�ZDQW�WR�EH�HDWLQJ�RU�JURZLQJ������ORFDOO\��\RX�can’t always do that.
On farming and food:
Danielle:�:HÖYH�YLVLWHG�%HOWDQH�)DUP��WKH\�VXSSO\�>:HVOH\DQÖV@�FKHHVH�FR�RS��:HÖYH�YLVLWHG�5RVHÖV�%HUU\�)DUP��VKH�VSHFLDOL]HV�LQ�UDVSEHUULHV��EOXHEHUULHV���
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Jaxie: And someone in his family had had cancer, so they were trying to make sure he eats a lot of greens and things that are good at building up your body’s immune system.
On eating local:
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Danielle: It’s interesting that all farmers have different perspectives on the things that they grow and what the level of intake of what they grow should be. My assumption going [into this project] was that all farmers ate from the farm.
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brownstone among strollers. I had a second serendipitous encounter with a man I know just
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wedding. My housemate was away with a separatist faction. A beloved professor strolled
with her Jesuit friends. My brother and his boyfriend were in their shared apartment,
demurely uptown.
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our most renewable energy. The having and losing of friends in a crowd rolls out and back
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