The Contact Zone
A monthly correspondence exploring geologic time in a bits-per-second age.
The concept of contact zones is significant across a variety of disciplines. In anthropology, a contact zone represents a space where people from different geographical and cultural backgrounds cross paths. In geology, it’s a boundary where two distinct rock types or formations meet. In biology, a secondary contact zone is a region where two distinct populations of a species are geographically reunited, allowing the potential for the exchange of genes.
They all ask a variant of the same question: what happens when we meet?
This is what we explore in The Contact Zone. What happens in the encounter? What happens in a secondary contact, as we return to each other after time apart? What happens when the meeting is within ourselves, as we shift from one distinct way of being to another?
There is a rich churning in these spaces. Here, we create space to witness what grows within them.
The first letters for The Contact Zone will be sent out August 2026. Join the Sediment newsletter below to be notified when registration opens!
What’s included?
Each month, you’ll receive a 5×7 fine art print and a slow-written letter exploring the wisdom of sediment. Together we’ll slow down enough to consider the world at a speed where we can see rock flow.
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Each month, you’ll receive a print inspired by the sediment in the world around us. Printed at a small local (to me) shop and on 100% cotton paper, each is made with intention and care, designed to live beyond today’s rapid consumption cycle
Each print comes numbered and signed.
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Written as a pairing to each month’s print, this letter is written with enough time to let the good stuff bubble up. (Like sourdough!) Here I use sediment—something the western world typically considers inanimate—as a starting point for an exploration on life and living. That juxtaposition is potent, and I’ve found that beings with life cycles that span hundreds of thousands of years have great wisdom to share.
