Issues
3. Desire Lines
Issue Three of Wonderground explores the ways in which lives are shaped by both desire and line. We’re exploring ideas of ecosexuality and Derek Jarman’s garden, mapping flight paths, meandering along desire lines, tracing the story of Nikolai Vavilov, using desire as a design tool, and holding tight to the rope stretched across the deep.
Keeper of Place
PeopleLearned student and gentle teacher Mark Parre has dedicated his life to care, curiosity and growth.
Paths of Least Resistance: A Conversation With Teresa Moller
Art & Design, ConversationsAcclaimed Chilean landscape architect Teresa Moller chats with Georgina Reid.
Between the Lines
CultureAn inexhaustive exploration of line and desire.
Beach Beat (Public Acts of Indecency)
PoetryNew poetry by Scott-Patrick Mitchell.
A Line Across the Deep
CultureThe courage and patience required to make art can be found in unlikely places.
Reckoning with Marianne North
Art & Design, CultureChristin Geall reflects on privilege, art and plants.
Flight Paths
EcologyThe lines that mark movement of animals and plants across landscapes are mysterious and long misunderstood. What can we learn about our world and ourselves if we pay them attention?
Tracing the Sky: Ornithographies by Xavi Bou
Art & Design, EcologySpanish photographer Xavi Bou makes visible the invisible movements of birds in the sky.
Scent and Memory
Culture, MemoirOur sense of smell tethers us unconsciously and elusively to people, places and our past. How? Why?
Conversations with Plants
BotanicaEvolutionary biologist Monica Gagliano tunes into the desires of plants.
Labour Relations
CultureRecognising the value of life-supporting work in the home and garden.
The Collector
Agriculture, CultureNikolaj Vavilov lived, and died, for diversity.
Love Letters to Country
Culture, PeopleGamilaraay writer Marika Duczynski yarns with Wiradjuri artist, poet and author Jazz Money about language and Country.
phosphorescence
Poetry16.06.2022 Words by Jazz Money Images by Daniel Shipp Issue 3Poetry…
A Forestless Path
Culture, Ecology'I wonder whether I walked through a forest at all.' Courtney Adamson comes to ground in a desecrated landscape.
Choreographing Desire
Agriculture, EcologyHow can land be managed in a way that liberates, not smothers, ecological processes?
Site Unseen
Art & DesignThree artists speak about how the land we live on is cleaved by borders or shaped by colonial desires.
Ogmographia
PoetryA poem by India Flint.