How are we going to transit from dependency to sovereignity? From extraction to sustenance? From industrial to socioecological? From hurting to healing? ---------------------------------------- “Bursting dam spillways, falling bridges, leaking pipelines, and mine-tailing dam collapses. We are so vulnerable, depending on an energy grid we have absolutely no control over!” – Carolina Caycedo (@lacaycedo) A wallpaper collage, 'This Land is a Poem of Ten Rivers Healing', by artist Carolina Caycedo envelops the #BacktoEarth exhibition space, showing satellite images of waterways in South and North America that have been shaped by human intervention. Image: © readsreads.info. Courtesy @serpentineuk ------- title inspired by Joy Harjo This land is a poem This land is a poem of ochre and burnt sand I could never write, unless paper were the sacrament of sky, and ink the broken line of wild horses staggering the horizon several miles away. Even then, does anything written ever matter to the earth, wind, and sky?