Writing Solid, Broken, Changing
photo by smudge studio,fromConveyanceI was inspired to write Solid, Broken, Changing by 15 years of collaborative art-making with Jamie Kruse, as smudge studio.
When I first started writing the book, I saw it as a way to give voice to smudge’s lived experiences of field-researching and responding to the Anthropocene as artists. The book was in rough outline form seven years ago, when journalists first began to explain the word “Anthropocene” to their readers. Anthropocene events ramified. And as they did, the book project felt more urgent and relevant. I was editing its print proof when Greta Thunberg crossed the Atlantic and as the 2019-20 fires raged in Australia. And now,Solid, Broken, Changingfeels less like a fiction and more like an artifact of the contemporary moment.
Staging a story about living the Anthropocene on the threshold of adulthood felt appropriate. It’s a time when self…
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