Seedling Pages grows out of Other Bodies and Make Space, and out of years of photographing the plants I live alongside. The seed first appeared there in Germination, one of the Other Bodies stories.
These pages also sit within a lineage of the healing mark, and three teachers are present in them. Shauna Kaendo and the ohHEY Creative Care Community taught me the principle this work is built on: that making marks together — in community, with breath and rhythm and no image to complete — is itself a form of care, and that we heal alongside one another rather than alone. Behind that practice stand two teachers I have never met. Florence Cane, nearly a century ago, showed that a freeing line begins not in the hand but in the breath and the whole moving body, and understood the scribble as a path to the unconscious. Resmaa Menakem, whose somatic work attends to what the body carries — including what it has inherited — meets that material in the body itself, and pairs each practice with the written mark he calls “soul scribing.” I claim no mastery of what any of them teach; these pages simply learn from all three, with gratitude.
