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An online periodical series, related in some fashion to gardening, started in the winter/spring of 2024.

The Record of the Month Club project finished with its 12th installment in July 2023. I have been wanting to follow it up with another publication-styled project, but instead of the Columbia House racket (with OMNI lurking beneath the surface), I'm thinking Better Homes & Gardens morphing into a paranormal Whole Earth Catalog.

Whole Earth Catalog page spread
Btw: here is the entire Whole Earth Catalog archives

And, of course, tinged with all the genre flavors I like to pull into projects: psychedelic sci-fi, astral horror, leftfield science, misfired occultism, etc.

The main idea: each issue runs the gamut between sincere gardening/cultivation advice and documentation, to enigmatic fictions and experimental ruminations.


I have been using the term "toolkit" so far, as I have been reaching out to audio artists as contributors, and asking for work that could be contrued as "utilitarian" in respect to plant cultivation.

The project is online — perpetrating a dual-45-single magazine, as opposed to a traditional stapled magazine PDF — as if all of its contents erupted from the gatefold.


Some personal inspirations, btw:

Piet Oudolf garden design drawing
Piet Oudolf garden design plan
Old manuscript artifacts:
Old manuscript artifact Old manuscript artifact Alchemy book pages


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