The Rillito River Project

Many things impressed me during my week–long ART LAB residency. The first half of our experience at the B2 Institute taught me about the quiet urgency of invasive species coupled with drought and imminent climate change in the southwest.

Driving from Tucson north on 77 toward Oracle and Biosphere 2, I’m in awe of the sprawl of rooftops that flank either side of the highway barely visible above the low-lying creosote trees. Knowing this to be a stressed environment I wonder, how can this be sustainable?Tunneling deep into Biosphere’s vast substructure of stainless steel [...]

I was barely nine years old when I pulled down the receiver and put the phone to my ear.


“Hell-lo”? I said.


“Mr. Cauthorn is an S.O.B.,” was the reply, and the connection went dead.

Naming is Seeing | Seeing is Forgetting

This is a video about how naming and categorizing both sharpens and limits our perceptions of the world, whether we’re seeing as artists or scientists.