Seeds for a New Day
Illustrated Book
My work explores the stories, relationships, and cultural practices that help communities navigate change with creativity, resilience, and care. Through visual art, ritual, storytelling, and collaborative projects, I am interested in how people cultivate belonging, adapt to uncertainty, and imagine regenerative futures rooted in place.
Created for the Skagit Valley Human Rights Festival in 2011, Seeds for a New Day emerged from this larger inquiry. The children's book draws inspiration from the Transition Movement and my experience co-founding the Chuckanut Transition group in the Samish Watershed. Rather than presenting resilience as a technical challenge alone, the book approaches it as a cultural and imaginative practice—one that invites us to reconsider our relationships with one another, our communities, and the living world.
I created Seeds for a New Day as a tool for conversation across generations. Through story and illustration, it explores themes of ecological stewardship, local self-reliance, cooperation, and hope. Like much of my work, it seeks to make complex social and environmental questions accessible through image, narrative, and creativity.
At its heart, the book reflects my belief that art and culture are essential to transformation. They help us envision possibilities beyond the limits of the present, strengthen our connection to place, and cultivate the values and relationships needed to create resilient and life-affirming futures.
