Creative Matriarch in Exile

Notes on art, care, land, and living beyond institutions that cannot hold us

By Blair Butterfield

· Launched 2 years ago

Year of Mugwort: Artemis and what the body knows

She doesn't announce herself. That's the first thing to know about Artemis. She comes as a particular quality of knowing, clear-eyed and unsentimental…

Jun 20 • Blair Butterfield

The Year of Mugwort

or: a letter to the plant who keeps finding me in the dark

Jun 6 • Blair Butterfield

When did I stop being cringe-proof? A Dispatch from Exile

On fear, the matriarch season, and a promise to show up unpolished

Jun 3 • Blair Butterfield

The Hand on the Wall

On Intelligence, Loneliness, and the More-Than-Human World

May 31 • Blair Butterfield

Stories Are Medicine: Notes from a Waldorf Classroom

Part two of Bitter Medicine Is Still Medicine

May 9 • Blair Butterfield

Bitter Medicine Is Still Medicine — We Are Composting the Archive Into Content

Part 1

May 6 • Blair Butterfield

Celandine

A Sun Plant That Does Not Wait for the Sun

May 3 • Blair Butterfield

Every Machine Begins as a Mountain

Minerals, machines, and the myth of the immaterial

Apr 22 • Blair Butterfield

The Hum Beneath Everything

On the slow erosion of a life's baseline

Apr 15 • Blair Butterfield

A Field Note on Lyme

On the things that enter without permission

Apr 11 • Blair Butterfield