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I have been reading a lot lately about artificial intelligence; what it is and isn’t, where it comes from and where it’s going. I am a Luddite, confirmed, and my... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/for-progress-there-is-no-cure/

Justseeds artists have been producing art in solidarity with the people of Palestine in cities across North America; painting banners, placards, flags for actions and interventions, and silkscree...

https://justseeds.org/justseeds-artists-in-the-streets-for-palestine/

In October of 2023 I opened a show at Souvenir Gallery in Portland, OR, which pulls together a skein of projects from the past five years into one exhibit. The... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/dig-up-the-sun-exhibit/

I’m pleased to share the publication of an article that I wrote for the New Republic magazine, which you can read here. This piece covers some of the experience that... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-price-congo-pays-for-its-metals-new-article-in-the-new-republic/

The Teamsters union is about to go on strike against UPS. If they do, it would be the largest strike against a single business in the history of the USA.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/graphics-for-the-ups-strike/

I spent three weeks in May in Lubumbashi, the second largest city in DR Congo. The city was founded in 1910 as a commercial garrison for the nearby Etoile du... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/nuclear-history-in-lubumbashi/

I’m in Lubumbashi, DR Congo for three weeks, doing research and presenting about my work on the history of the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan Project. I’m staying... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-assassination-site-of-patrice-lumumba/

Fucking Cancelled is a podcast from Montreal, Canada, hosted by Clementine Morrigan and Jay Lesoleil, which deals with what the hosts call the Nexus: the synthesis of identitarianism, social medi...

https://justseeds.org/roger-peet-with-the-fucking-cancelled-podcast/

I wrote a feature article about Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine for the excellent magazine of African news and culture The Continent. Check it out to read a short summary of the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/shinkolobwe-article-published-in-the-continent/

I got to have a fun and wide-ranging conversation with friend and colleague Joey Alone of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast. We talked about Congo, conservation, the sorry... Read More...

https://justseeds.org/roger-peet-on-crime-pays-but-botany-doesnt/

Here are a few new banners and signs from recent protest and picket activity in Portland, OR. My partner Erica Thomas designed and painted the “On Strike” and “Solidarity” ones,... Read ...

https://justseeds.org/recent-banners-and-picket-signs/

I gave a lecture on my research into the legacy of the Shinkolobwe uranium mine in DR Congo for the Hanford Challenge Project. Hanford is the name of the military... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-wound-at-the-heart-of-the-world-the-nuclear-legacy-of-the-manhattan-project-in-congo-and-usa/

I traveled to Tulsa in October of 2022 to collaborate on this mural with an artist that I’ve admired for a long time. Kathleen Neeley is an illustrator and printmaker... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-murals-29-the-american-burying-beetle-in-tulsa-ok/

Street Roots is Portland, OR’s street newspaper, sold across the metro area by people experiencing houselessness. It’s also reliably one of the best publications in the city hands down on... ...

https://justseeds.org/street-roots-illustrations/

In June I travelled to the town of Selkirk, Treaty 2 territory, Manitoba, Canada, to paint a mural of the endangered Piping Plover. These charming small shorebirds are threatened by... Read More...

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-murals-27-piping-plover/

Across the USA, a wave of union activity is hitting the ubiquitous storefronts of the Starbucks brand. The baristas and “partners” calling for union elections are on the frontline of... Read...

https://justseeds.org/unionizing-starbucks-in-portland/

A new entry in the ongoing Endangered Species Mural Project just wrapped up in the small village of Shoshone, CA, on the edge of Death Valley. The mural is on... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-murals-desert-endemics-in-shoshone-ca/

I’ve been at an art residency in Tanzania for a bit more than three weeks now, at an art space in the Mikocheni neighborhood of Dar es Salaam called Nafasi.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/linocuts-from-dar-es-salaam-tanzania/

I wrote this piece to accompany the second edition of this print. If you’re like me, and sorry in advance, you have spent a lot of your life wondering exactly... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/we-made-this-world-we-can-make-another/

Last week my art-and-life partner Erica Thomas and I collaborated on a small banner for a potential upcoming strike at Portland City Hall. The city workers organized with District Council... Rea...

https://justseeds.org/banner-for-a-city-hall-strike/

Seems strange to post about good news, but I will absolutely take it where I find it. This week, there were two victories in campaigns that I’ve been associated with,... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/recent-victories-against-fossil-fuel-infrastructure/

In the first weeks of October, 2021, I traveled to Del Rio, Texas to paint the 26th installment in the Endangered Species Mural Project, an effort to paint murals of... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-murals-26-the-mexican-blindcat/

I spent a few days last month in Barcelona, and had the opportunity to visit the impressive (formerly) squatted social and labor center Can Batlló, located in the city’s Sants... Read More »...

https://justseeds.org/la-impremta-colectiva-radical-printmaking-in-barcelona/

This design is based on a linocut that I’m eventually going to make into a formal print on paper, but I haven’t quite managed to do so yet. In the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/new-shirt-designs/

During the pandemic I got to know my letterpress. I spent many of the smoke-filled, fire-blasted, locked-down and dark months carving and printing the blocks for my first artist book,... Read Mo...

https://justseeds.org/7-elemental-forces-an-artist-book/

The Civil Liberties Defense Council commissioned me to make a comic illustrating the ongoing struggle against oil-giant Chevron, and their attempts to avoid the consequences of massively pollutin...

https://justseeds.org/license-to-spill-an-anti-chevron-comic/

I’ve been working on a few poster designs for a commission from Aaron Huey of the Amplifier Foundation and National Geographic magazine. Each poster involves my interpretations of iconic photog...

https://justseeds.org/insect-papercuts-for-an-amplifier-commission/

PM Press hired me to create a bilingual bandana for the powerhouse border organization No More Deaths. If you haven’t heard of them, NMD is on the frontlines of migrant... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/no-more-deaths-bandana/

This is the second video in a series of animated shorts that I’m helping to create for the good people at Mongabay.com. It’s an animated explainer that aims to describe... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-sumatran-rhino-hard-to-save/

I’ve just returned to Portland from a swing through the high plateaus of the southwest, escaping the Portland cloud and retaining social distance. Being away from the studio meant that... Read...

https://justseeds.org/early-2021-projects/

Justseeds artist Kill Joy has coordinated a rush job of poster design, enlisting several artists from the cooperative to produce images for a push for rigorous climate action by the... Read More...

https://justseeds.org/keep-it-in-the-ground-poster-designs/

Over the past four or five years I’ve designed and produced a series of banners, signs, stickers and posters to support the ongoing struggle against the Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural... Read M...

https://justseeds.org/rebuild-rogue-climate/

I was invited by the Pequot Library in Southport, CT to give a talk about the Migration Now! portfolio, which I co-produced with Favianna Rodriguez. It was great to get... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/migration-now-artist-talk-at-pequot-library/

This summer I worked on a really interesting project that was something pretty new to me: an animated explainer about the current situation of the endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros, created for... ...

https://justseeds.org/the-sumatran-rhino-not-doomed/

I’ve been designing and painting some banners for upcoming rallies that will take place after the elexecution (not my joke) is over. It’s been pretty cathartic to imagine (with a... Read Mor...

https://justseeds.org/recent-banner-designs/

If you’ve been following my research and writings here about the legacy of DR Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine (the source of the impossibly powerful uranium ore that made the Manhattan Project... R...

https://justseeds.org/fundraiser-for-congolese-researchers-in-pursuit-of-the-us-nuclear-legacy-in-africa/

David Graeber died last week, and in mourning his loss and considering his contributions, I read, at a friend’s suggestion, his 2011 summary of Occupy on the Al Jazeera website.... Read More �...

https://justseeds.org/the-witch-in-the-smoke/

It was my pleasure to help organize a webinar on the 75th anniversary of the Trinity test to commemorate all those who have been affected by the legacy of the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/from-shinkolobwe-to-tsankawi-75-years-of-nuclearity-after-the-trinity-test/

It’s been 53 days of protest in Portland. Tonight at the Justice Center a line of mothers in yellow is pressed against the new fence that the Federal forces have... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/fifty-three-days-of-protest-in-portland-oregon/

Since my main gig painting murals has been postponed indefinitely due to COVID, I’ve been looking elsewhere for ways to make a living making art, and I’ve been lucky to... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/art-and-protest-and-extinction-is-forever/

I’ve been researching a sprawling project about the Congolese mine that produced the Uranium for the Manhattan project for several years now (read previous blog posts here and here). With... R...

https://justseeds.org/the-rocks-keep-showing-up/

This image represents an individual Rocky Mountain locust, Melanoplus spretus, a representative of what was once one of the most numerous species in the history of the entire planet, and... Read...

https://justseeds.org/rocky-mountain-locust-print-process/

Over Christmas I visited my family and at dinner one night my stepfather was telling a story about his childhood, and how his father had made a living. They lived... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/complexity-against-ecofascism/

Last month I designed and built five big banners for a protest at the Oregon statehouse in Salem against the Jordan Cove LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) pipeline and terminal slated... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/no-lng-banners-at-oregon-statehouse/

This is the second half of a little essay about the history of mining and human civilization. You can read the first part here. This is a work in progress,... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/a-brief-history-of-mining-pt-2/

It was a real treat to return to Berea, Kentucky, to paint this mural celebrating one of the Southeasts’ most enigmatic and endangered plants- the White Fringeless Orchid, Platanthera integrila...

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-murals-white-fringeless-orchid/

I recently had the pleasure to design a couple of banners for an action taken by colleagues at Portland Rising Tide. Climbers and kayakers from PRT and Mosquito Fleet chained... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/port-blockade-banners-for-portland-rising-tide/

516 Arts in Albuquerque just opened a massive show of artworks addressing the biodiversity of the area drained by the Rio Grande river, and the threats that it faces. It’s... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/species-in-peril-murals-on-the-border/

It’s the 21st installment in the Endangered Species Mural Project! This one happened in Silver City, New Mexico, a beautiful mountain town on the edge of the Gila National Forest,... Read More...

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-of-the-gila-basin-mural/

For the past few weeks I’ve been carving a 4 foot by 6 foot block of birch plywood, depicting a section of the Columbia River Gorge. I live about half... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/exquisite-gorge-whose-story-is-this/

I’ve just returned from a 6-week residency (along with my partner Erica Thomas) in Medellín, Colombia, as a guest of Casa Tres Patios; an arts organization affiliated with the University... R...

https://justseeds.org/what-to-pick-up-after-you-put-down-the-gun/

I was recently interviewed by Jeanne Dodds at the Endangered Species Coalition about the mural project I’ve been coordinating for the past four and a half years. See the full... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-coalition-interview/

250 million years ago an extinction event wiped out 95% of all species on Earth, the greatest such winnowing ever to occur. It’s referred to as the Permian/Triassic extinction, or... Read More...

https://justseeds.org/todays-extinct-animal-lystrosaurus/

I’m in Medellín, Colombia, for a six week residency at Casa Tres Patios, an arts center connected to the University of Antioquia. I’m here with my partner Erica Thomas, and... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/la-minga-indigena/

For the next six weeks I’ll be in Medellin, Colombia, working with the people at Fundación Casa Tres Patios to create some projects with ex-fighters of the FARC, the Revolutionary... Read Mor...

https://justseeds.org/waking-up-from-the-forest/

The 20th of the Endangered Species murals is finished, this time in Yuma Arizona on the campus of Arizona Western College. This installment features the Sonoran Pronghorn, smallest and fastest......

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-mural-20-sonoran-pronghorn-and-yuma-rail/

The incoming tide of fascism in Brazil is breaking on the shores of Rio. The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro shut down today an art exhibit at... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/censorship-in-brazil/

I recently finished a residency at the Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in eastern Tennessee. This was different from the residencies I normally do- instead of working on print... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/a-brief-history-of-mining/

I came across this on Twitter last week: a newly compiled version of Ed Mead’s 80’s text adventure “The Warden Game“. Ed was a member of working-class anticapitalist urban guerrilla... R...

https://justseeds.org/the-warden-game/

Tré Seals is a designer who is working to create fonts out of the letters on Civil Rights era protest signs. I interviewed him via email. How did you get... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/civil-rights-fonts/

This is the second in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/hanford-and-the-reactionary-imagination-a-journey-into-nuclearity-pt-2/

The sixteenth of the Endangered Species Murals is finished! This big wall is located near the Convention Center in downtown El Paso, Texas, and features five endangered species from the... Read ...

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-mural-16-borderlands-wildlife-in-el-paso/

I’ve spent the last six days on the Pacific Ocean, in transit from San Diego, CA to Astoria, OR aboard the R/V Falkor, the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s big research vessel.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/ghostfish-aboard-the-r-v-falkor/

This is the first in a series of posts about a visit to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Eastern Washington state, and the fate of the uranium ores found in... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/hanford-and-the-reactionary-imagination-a-journey-into-nuclearity-part-1/

The fifteenth Endangered Species Mural is complete! This one is located on the corner of Washington and Tenth streets in the small town of Cottage Grove, Oregon, at the southern... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-murals-15-taylors-checkerspot-butterfly/

I left Portland at about eight o’clock on a Thursday night, after a cruise through the art shows downtown. The sun had set by the time I reached Celilo Park,... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/wilderness-of-possibility/

In February of this year I had the good fortune to travel to Jacmel, Haiti, to teach a class on screenprinting at a small community arts center called Jakmel Ekspresyon.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/silkscreen-printing-in-jacmel-haiti/

In the rapidly-gentrifying and deeply self-satisfied cultural landscape of Portland, OR, there are few political institutions with any lengthy history of integrity. One of those is our colleague ...

https://justseeds.org/eberhardt-press-needs-our-help/

In early March I helped to organize a banner-painting Propaganda Party at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, over three lunchtimes in the school’s central atrium. I’m the Cultural....

https://justseeds.org/no-lng-propaganda-party-at-pnca-in-portland/

I recently returned from about three and a half weeks of travel through the southwest and beyond, including three days spent at the 4th annual March to Save Oak Flat.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/solidarity-with-oak-flat/

Artist Garrick Imatani has been working on a series of powerful projects related to culture and power in the context of colonial and Indigenous relationships to land, and to the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/garrick-imatani-rendering-culture-and-history/

Over the last few weeks I’ve been collaborating with Klamath artists Ka’ila Farrel-Smith and Asa Wright to produce some big banners for a rally against Liquefied Natural Gas export in... Rea...

https://justseeds.org/no-lng-rally-in-salem/

I recently completed this illustration for our ongoing collaboration with the excellent political magazine In These Times, in which Justseeds artists are providing the centerfold posters for thei...

https://justseeds.org/no-insects-means-no-future/

The fourteenth Endangered Species mural is finished! This one is located in the Laurel District of Oakland, CA, and is a little different in theme and execution form the other... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/a-bear-shaped-hole/

Jess Chen and Roger Peet collaborated on an illustration early this year for a campaign entitled To Immigrants, With Love- an outreach and letter-writing effort designed to breach the feelings......

https://justseeds.org/to-immigrants-with-love-mural/

About a third of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative recently traveled to Mexico City, (where three of our members live) for a week of collaboration with some of the amazing political... Read M...

https://justseeds.org/justseeds-in-mexico-2/

The 13th Endangered Species Mural features the Northern Carolina Flying Squirrel, painted with Tricia Tripp on the Merrimon Ave. underpass going into downtown Asheville, NC. The Northern Carolina...

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-mural-13-flying-squirrel/

Got this in the mailbox from a crew of designers and shit-disturbers in Hamburg, Germany, where the next G20 summit will be held this 7 & 8 of July. Submit... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/hamburg-g20-protests-call-for-posters/

I recently completed the 11th in the ongoing series of murals about endangered species that I coordinate, and this one is a bit out of the ordinary- it’s installed in... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-mural-12-sockeye-salmon/

A guest post by colleague Amy Harwood, of Signal Fire and the Gloo Factory. I think I might have the most interesting comment thread going on Facebook today. No, really.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-sunflower-seed/

I just finished off the 12th in the Endangered Species Mural Project, at the corner of Lombard and Atlantic in North Portland, OR.  Painted with Portland artist Sarah Farahat, the... Read More ...

https://justseeds.org/streaked-horned-lark-mural/

Justseeds artists Jess X. Chen and Roger Peet recently collaborated on an image to promote the #toimmigrantswithlove campaign, an online effort to encourage people to reach out to the immigrants....

https://justseeds.org/to-immigrants-with-love/

The people at Creative Commons do good work- promoting a healthy relationship to copyright and intellectual property, and working to ensure that a public domain stays public in the most... Read ...

https://justseeds.org/justseeds-on-creative-commons/

Political art is a powerful tool, but not every work penetrates the public imagination, and most fall far short. Sometimes, however, a single timely image captures precisely the attention of... ...

https://justseeds.org/fahmi-reza-we-are-all-seditious/

In the last few months there’s been a real upswing in the number of images being posted to our downloadable graphics page. I’m also happy to report that there’s been... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/justseeds-art-in-the-streets/

Bay-Area arts organizer David Solnit has been making art for protest movements for decades, and has established a practice of simple, reliable techniques for amplifying messages in the streets. I...

https://justseeds.org/art-build-techniques-for-protest/

I had been planning a mural in Asheville, NC for months, had a ticket, ordered paint, and was all set to fly out and start painting on the 7th and... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/mural-at-standing-rock/

Hi Everyone! This year’s election will radically transform many people’s political activity, but defending what we have and fighting for change is not just a reaction to the current regime......

https://justseeds.org/subscribe-to-community-supported-art-for-2017/

I was recently invited to do a live-printing demo at the Portland Art Museum, as part of their programming around the big Warhol show they have up. It was a... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/live-printing-at-the-art-museum/

Colleague Shieko Reto has been making some awesome retro GIFs addressing aspects of trans life and everyday politics in Malaysia. Here’s a selection of some of my favorites along with... Read ...

https://justseeds.org/shieko-retos-gifs/

The 9th of the Endangered Species Murals is recently completed in the town of Berea, Kentucky- featuring the first plant in the series, the beautiful and strange White Fringeless Orchid.... Read...

https://justseeds.org/white-fringeless-orchid-mural/

The eighth of the Endangered Species Murals is now complete! I’ve just returned to Portland from Knoxville, Tennessee, after finishing up the largest mural I have ever had the pleasure... Read...

https://justseeds.org/freshwater-mussel-mural/

The abduction in 2014 of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college in Guerrero, Mexico continues unsolved, as evidence mounts of government complicity and even coordination of the ...

https://justseeds.org/benefit-for-the-parents-of-the-ayotzinapa-43/

Last weekend I went to Astoria, a small city at the mouth of the Columbia River, for a party celebrating what seems like a final victory over the forces that... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/no-lng-victory-in-astoria-and-other-thoughts/

Justseeds artist Jess X. Chen just completed a really impressive mural project at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in LA as part of the Endangered Species Mural Project. Working with... Rea...

https://justseeds.org/migrant-mural-in-la/

It’s the 21st year of the Bay Area Anarchist bookfair, an annual gathering of publishers, thinkers, and actors on the theme of making this society, and all societies, free. If... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/justseeds-at-the-bay-area-anarchist-bookfair/

It’s a Justseeds art explosion in the art-build space above Company Brewing in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood for the next three days. Justseeds artists Paul Kjelland, Pete Railand, Nicol...

https://justseeds.org/mayday-preparations-in-milwaukee/

Our colleagues in Art Forces are hosting their second annual Social Justice Bloc Party this coming weekend, April 22-23 in Olympia, Washington, and showing some work from our Migration Now... Re...

https://justseeds.org/social-justice-bloc-party-in-olympia/

On Saturday April 2nd in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, a feminist art and music event called Lady Fast was attacked by hardline fundamentalists and city police. The event was being hosted by... Read Mo...

https://justseeds.org/lady-fast-attacked-by-fundamentalists/

I spent a week in Nebraska earlier this month, as a guest artist at the University of Omaha, at the invitation of professor Jave Yoshimoto. I spent most of my... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/big-prints-in-omaha/

Colleague Maren Ward has been putting together a musical celebrating 30 years of Earth First!– the radical, no-compromise environmental movement that brought direct action to the forests, mount...

https://justseeds.org/earth-first-the-musical/

Colleagues in Taring Padi, the amazing Indonesian political art group that I recently spent some time with, produced a calendar a couple of years ago featuring beautiful paintings of 6... Read M...

https://justseeds.org/indigenous-leaders-of-indonesia/

Legendary punk performer Vi Subversa died today, aged 80. Vi fronted the equally legendary British punk group the Poison Girls, bringing an elder perspective to the turmoil of youth culture,... ...

https://justseeds.org/vi-subversa-rip/

I’m just back from Indonesia, and a slew of little art projects there. First up, a paste-up wall of Manta Ray screenprints and papercuts- I made these before I left... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/manta-ray-paste-ups-in-yogyakarta/

Greetings from Yogyakarta, a burgeoning city on the island of Java in Indonesia. I’m here to visit friends in the Indonesian political printmaking collective Taring Padi, legendary agitators in...

https://justseeds.org/back-in-yogyakarta-with-taring-padi/

The fifth of the Endangered Species Murals is taking shape in Tucson, on the side of the Solar Culture complex in downtown. The mural is being painted by local artist... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/jaguar-mural-in-tucson-progress/

  “Despite Oregon’s revolting racist history as a racist white “utopia,” the state comes off as part of the “left coast,” a safe haven for gender, sexual diversity, environmentalism,...

https://justseeds.org/news-from-the-malheur-occupation/

Portland hip-hop MC, organizer, radio wrangler and colleague Mic Crenshaw is currently on tour through multiple nations of Sub-Saharan Africa with the Afrikan Hip-Hop Caravan. The Caravan is a tr...

https://justseeds.org/afrikan-hip-hop-caravan-interview-with-mic-crenshaw/

On the morning of December 11 a number of direct actions took places in cities around the world, in solidarity with the work giong on in Paris to force attention... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/inflatable-climate-action-around-the-world/

I’m just returned from Birmingham, Alabama, upon completion of the fourth Endangered Species Mural, this one featuring the Watercress Darter. The darter is a very small, brightly colored fish t...

https://justseeds.org/watercress-darter-mural/

  I’ve been at a residency in the grassy hills of northeastern Wyoming for the past few weeks. I realized the other day that I had passed quite close to... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/american-cheetah-process/

I’m at an arts residency in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25. It’s pretty amazing here- the vast dun high plains full of turkeys and deer, the blue Bighorn Mountains off to... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/ucross-residency-former-oceans/

The nice people at Portland Rising Tide asked me to design a t-shirt logo for them- and the above graphic is what I came up with. Fossil fuel exports are... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/rising-tide-t-shirt-logo/

In 1965, ten years before I was born, my father faked his death in a scuba diving accident on the north coast of Wales, in order to abscond from the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/my-certain-fate/

When considering the death of species and the grim biological impoverishment of earth, we have to take the lesser with the larger, and the less lovely as well. Recent news... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/st-helena-giant-earwig/

I just opened a solo show of prints, installation, sound, and video in the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Gallery 214. It’s up until the end of November, so if... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/traps-flows-echoes-opens-in-pdx/

I’m deep in preparation for my upcoming solo show at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. The show is called “Traps, Flows, Echoes” and it opens Nov 6th,... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/traps-flows-echoes-prep/

I wrote this article for Bitch Magazine in the leadup to the recent People’s Climate March, thinking about futility and frustration and the reasons we do the work we do.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/why-do-we-protest/

In the weeks leading up to the recent Justseeds retreat in scenic McMinnville OR, Mazatl and I painted a mural on the front of the Alleyway Bar on Alberta St.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/honoring-or-7-a-wild-mural-project/

Today is September 1st, 2014, and marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the last Passenger Pigeon in a Cincinnati zoo. That last bird, named Martha, represented the culmination... Read Mor...

https://justseeds.org/100-years-of-silent-skies/

The excellent environmental news site Mongabay.com has a new journalism initiative, and it’s producing some fascinating work. A recent post examined the potential linkages between the trafficki...

https://justseeds.org/great-ape-trafficking-and-the-ebola-outbreak/

I just got back from a week in the Marble Mountains wilderness of Northern California with the wildlands education and residency organization Signal Fire. Ten artists and activists, from a... Re...

https://justseeds.org/signal-fire-lost-marbles/

Today would have been Patrice Emery Lumumba’s 89th birthday. Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo, was an emblem of passionate resistance to Belgian colonial rule, and at... ...

https://justseeds.org/happy-birthday-patrice/

Justseeds artists Santiago Armengod, Nicolas Lampert and Roger Peet each made a graphic for the recently released Public Energy Art Kit, which is a collection of posters addressing aspects of... ...

https://justseeds.org/public-energy-art-kit/

I wrote a new post for the blog about my Congo trip today, covering a conversation I had with the chief of the tiny and isolated village of Lole about... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/shifting-baselines-on-the-lomami/

The organization I’ve been working for in Congo, TL2, performs many of the functions that people in western countries would consider to be the responsibility of the state. From road-building......

https://justseeds.org/when-is-a-state-not-a-state/

For the last six weeks or so, I’ve been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, volunteering with a project that is trying to develop a new national park in the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/lomami-drama/

I’m in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the next two months, working on a conservation theater project in and around a new national park in the east of the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/justseeds-in-the-dr-congo/

I’m pleased to announce the release of Obenge Recordings- a compilation of music I recorded in the now-vanished village of Obenge in Democratic Republic of Congo in the fall of... Read More »...

https://justseeds.org/obenge-recordings/

I’m just back from three weeks in Mexico, most of which I spent traveling with Mazatl in Chiapas, the southernmost state and home to the Zapatista movement and its system... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/zapatista-murals/

Roger and Mazatl are in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, to participate in some of the events taking place around the 20th anniversary of the emergence of the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/justseeds-in-mexico/

On a grim and drippy morning earlier this week I sat in my house reading an article about slave capitalism in the magazine n+1, specifically a review of Walter Johnson’s... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-historical-imagination/

A couple of weeks ago the AFL-CIO, the largest remaining union in the US, held its annual convention in Los Angeles. The centerpiece of the convention hall was a structure... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/our-art-at-the-afl-cio-convention/

I spent two weeks in August traveling around Montana. My friend Elizabeth and I hiked to hot springs in the Bitterroot Wilderness, counted Golden Eagles and Nighthawks in the Paradise... Read Mo...

https://justseeds.org/bill-ohrmann-paints-it-how-he-sees-it/

Perusing the ol’ Hark! a Vagrant tumblr yesterday I came across this absolutely marvelous video by Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tic for a song called Google Google Apps Apps. I... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/google-google-apps-apps/

I was recently commissioned by Dissent magazine to provide some illustrations for their special issue on climate change. Check out the magazine here and consider a subscription! You can see... R...

https://justseeds.org/dissent-illustrations/

Some colleagues made this awesome, star-studded explosion of a video tribute to Bradley Manning. Watch it, think hard about it. What are YOU willing to do for what you know... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/i-am-bradley-manning/

Radical Portland MC Mic Crenshaw has a new EP out and just posted a video for one of the tracks called “Free My MInd”. It’s a great cut: an homage... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/mic-crenshaw-free-my-mind/

A Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of glowing plants just reached its funding goal. The plan, put forth by a small startup in the Bay Area called Genome Compiler... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/stop-glowing-plants/

University of Nottingham professor Adam David Morton offers up a nice little vignette of commentary on the significance of the Zapatista movement, using my “Aqui Seguimos” print as a springbo...

https://justseeds.org/commentary-on-aqui-seguimos/

Fire is part of the suite of factors on the short list for major contributions to human development. When we learned to control fire, we started using it to harden... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/todays-extinct-animal-pig-footed-bandicoot/

I was recently commissioned to design a poster for the law firm Meyer, Glitzenstein and Crystal to commemorate their 20th anniversary. MG&C has spent the last twenty years aggressively defending....

https://justseeds.org/twenty-years-of-legal-action-for-animals/

A doomed past doesn’t mean a doomed future. The weight of history doesn’t bear down forever- people shrug their burdens off. I’ve got two new prints (here and here) up... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/counterfeit-a-congo-diptych/

You might have noticed, joyfully, the news last week about grad student Thomas Herndon and his epic takedown of one of the pillars of the global austerity movement. Herndon was... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/austerity-means-a-spanking/

I ran across this impressive piece of data visualization recently, which really sums up exactly how the US “war on terror” strategy has changed since Obama’s arrival as commander in... Rea...

https://justseeds.org/death-drops-down/

Image from Copperflora.org. When I decided to reembark on this series of posts about extinct species, I did a check through my copious bookmarks to see if anything jumped out... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/todays-extinct-plant-acalypha-dikuluwensis/

Here’s a short clip shot during our install in Milwaukee. Thanks to everyone who came out to see it, and who came to our presentations in the gallery. A great... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/print-factory-video/

Part of the month I spent at the Caldera Arts Center was taken up by attempts to fashion some music videos out of the clips I shot while traveling in... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/video-experiments-and-weird-news/

Islands: they’re good places to show up at if you are looking to evolutionarily diverge. If your species manages to arrive at an island with no native predators on it,... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/todays-extinct-animal-falkland-islands-wolf/

It’s week three of my arts residency in the high Cascade mountains of central Oregon. I’m at the Caldera Arts Center, in the burnt pine woods uphill from the town... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/process-labor-creates-all-wealth/

The excellent magazine n+1 released a small book last year called “The Trouble Is The Banks: Letters to Wall Street”. The book is composed of letters written to the officers... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-trouble-is-the-banks/

Hey everyone- we’re having a sale for the rest of February here at Justseeds. You can get 10% off every order when you use the coupon code “winter” at checkout.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/justseeds-winter-sale/

I’ve just seen (via Boing Boing) that Freedom Books was recently and mysteriously firebombed. The long-lived London Anarchist bookstore is 125 years old. Read more here.

https://justseeds.org/freedom-bookstore-firebombed/

I’ve been slowly updating the tumblr about my Congo trip, dropping in some photos and telling some small stories about them. There’s so much to tell! The total chaos and... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/congo-stories/

I read an article yesterday at the Cluster Mag about the ever-widening circle of art-superstars who never actually participate in the fashioning of their own work. While this is nothing... Read ...

https://justseeds.org/whose-art-is-this-anyway/

I woke up early and read another great post by filmmaker Adam Curtis on his excellent blog. In it, he describes the rise of fear and hatred among a populace... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/dreams-of-vengeance/

I’ve been back from Congo for nearly a month now, which seems crazy. It was very odd to travel from a place like Obenge, the Congolese village where I stayed... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-lomami-bandanas-bear-deluxe-article-and-other-press/

Ten days ago I returned to the US after three months in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I’m still adjusting to being back, waking up at 4 in the morning,... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/back-from-the-congo/

I’m currently in DR Congo, in the capital Kinshasa, to be precise, waiting for a dawn flight to Kisangani in the Northeast. I’m volunteering with a team of scientists led... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/a-new-species-of-monkey-in-dr-congo/

Portland-based Justseeds colleague Nina Montenegro coordinated a great project last month in the St. Johns neighborhood of northeast Portland. Working with Depave Portland, Nina painted a giant m...

https://justseeds.org/depaving-the-wild/

I’ve finished the drawing for my project in DR Congo this fall- I’ll be printing the image at right (click to embiggen) onto about four hundred big bright bandanas and... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/lomami-bandanas-kickstarter/

I recently finished reading a book called “Built by Animals”, by Mike Hansell, published by the Oxford University Press. It’s a quick read, but quite full of fascinating things to... Read ...

https://justseeds.org/its-a-trap/

I just finished the first sketch of the image for the Lomami National Park Bandanas! What are those, I hear you cry. Well, they’re going to be a pile of... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/lomami-bandanas-first-sketch/

There’s an awful lot of mass murder going on in Mexico. Piles of dead bodies are heaped in public squares, hung from bridges, or dismembered and decapitated and laid out... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/surreal-omnidirectional-tornado-of-slaughter/

What do you get if you combine social media, crowd-sourced funding, and remote drone strikes? Kickstriker.com. Imagine the scenario: you and a bunch of your evangelical, closeted friends have det...

https://justseeds.org/kickstriker/

We’ve been making a lot of progress on the upcoming Justseeds/Culture Strike Migration Portfolio (Title TK) that I’m co-coordinating with Favianna Rodriguez. We’re producing nearly forty im...

https://justseeds.org/justseeds-migration-portfolio-progress/

Adam Curtis, of Power of Nightmares fame, has a new long-read post up on his blog that is sure to rile many: he suggests that the modern yoga craze finds... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/adam-curtis-takes-aim-at-yoga/

The second round of Endangered Species condoms have been released! I was commissioned by the Center for Biological Diversity to produce five original paper-cuts for the series, which also incorpo...

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-condoms-released/

Some exciting news for me- I’m going to be working with the Center for Biological Diversity to develop art for the next round of Endangered Species Condoms. The condoms are... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/endangered-species-condoms/

Here are a couple of interesting stories from the gorilla regions of central Africa: The Fossey Gorilla Fund, which operates a variety of active conservation efforts in Rwanda and DR... Read Mor...

https://justseeds.org/gorillas-fighting-back/

I received a press release this morning from a new political action group; Patriots for Self-Deportation, announcing the launch of their website SelfDeport.org. Taking inspiration from Presidenti...

https://justseeds.org/patriots-for-self-deportation/

In drug-war torn Reynosa, Mexico, a large statue of a rooster has appeared on a busy roadside. The ten-foot sculpture is adorned with a flower wreath addressed to the memory... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/narco-street-art-rooster-memorial/

Hennessy Youngman, the row-home raconteur, does his inimitable part here dissecting and dismantling the awful schlock-art masturbator Damien Hirst, he of “embalmed shark in formaldehyde” fame...

https://justseeds.org/art-thoughtz-takes-down-damien-hirst/

Last year two species of Rhinoceros went extinct. The Vietnamese sub-species of the Javan Rhino and the Western Black Rhino of Africa are gone forever, casting no more shadows. Their... Read Mor...

https://justseeds.org/the-rhino-rescue-project/

When my friend Katherine Ball was being interviewed by the Oregonian here in Portland during the Occupation this fall, she asked me to write up something to address the so-called... Read More »...

https://justseeds.org/what-do-we-want/

The two big blockprints from the We Agree project are finally available today in the Justseeds store; one made by three Justseeds artists, and the other by the Taring Padi... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/big-collaborative-blockprints/

Adam Curtis, the BBC filmmaker behind a series of amazing documentaries like The Power of Nightmares and Machines of Loving Grace, has a great entry on his blog this week.... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/ghosts-in-the-machines/

Uh, the entire run of 2012 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press organizers has sold out. I’m sort of shocked. I sincerely apologize to anyone disappointed, the rate of movement was quite beyond what... R...

https://justseeds.org/organizers-sold-out/

Last Monday, people in cities up and down the West Coast came out to try to shut down the ports. My friend Chris and I put together some posters for... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/posters-for-the-port-shutdown/

Occupy Portland has been uprooted from its two downtown parks, and begins a new phase – whether that means a new location or a new course of action. Since I... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/banners-for-the-eviction/

If you missed it last week: the 2012 Justseeds/ Eberhardt Press organizer is out. I’m busy wiring them together as fast as I can, while Charles of Eberhardt stands behind... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/2012-organizers-are-out/

The 2012 Justseeds/Eberhardt Press Organizer is finished and on its way to HQ. It’ll be available for sale on Thursday. Click through for a preview of the inside!

https://justseeds.org/organizer-finished-and-on-its-way/

I recently returned from England, the most highly surveilled region of Earth. It’s palpable. The presence of CCTV cameras is like the touch of a spider. Very like a spider,... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/surveillance-technologies/

I just returned from Europe, having followed up the epic Justseeds Slovenia Install with some travel in Croatia and the UK. During my excursion to Croatia, I stayed on the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/bunker-mentality/

Today I put the final touches on the mural that’s been my summer job. It’s on the Citybikes Annex building at 8th and Ankeny in Portland, Oregon (Click here for... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-finished-thing/

The Art Threat blog has a great review of what looks like an amazing comic book called “Kenk: A Graphic Portrait“. The subject of the book is a highly unscrupulous... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/kenk-stealing-to-save-the-world/

Themba Lewis has a great gallery of pictures of street art from the revolution in Egypt on his website. His photos captured an explosion of public art onto the walls... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/street-art-of-the-revolution/

Oof. It’s finally summer out here in the Best Coast, and I find myself caught up in a veritable storm of art-activities. When it rains, it pours, you know? Except... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/a-busy-day/

I got a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council to paint a big mural on the Citybikes Annex building at 8th and Ankeny in Portland; here’s a picture... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/citybikes-mural-in-portland/

I was recently commissioned by the Portland chapter of Veterans for Peace to design some images for their convention in August: It was a fun assignment. These linocuts will be... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/veterans-for-peace-broadsheets/

The Bushmeat Food-cart debuted at the Mall last Saturday; people seemed to enjoy it, in a way. Here’s some flicks from the opening!

https://justseeds.org/viande-de-brousse-opening-2/

My colleague Jemila Hart, who is a fellow board member of the Flight 64 print studio in Portland, recently had a show in the space of a series of monotypes... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/jemila-hart-celilo-falls-monotypes/

Here’s a new project: a bushmeat food-cart. The project is called Viande de Brousse, the French translation of bushmeat, meaning simply wild meat hunted from the forest, or bush, as... Read Mo...

https://justseeds.org/viande-de-brousse/

Russian art interventionists Voina (whom you might recall from this wonderful action and it’s hilarious world-upside-down aftermath) have donated a portion of the funds that Banksy gave them fo...

https://justseeds.org/art-and-repression-in-russia/

I’ve got a new print on the site called “The Burning World”. It’s based on a graphic device called a radial tree of life, which is a method of depicting... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-burning-world-a-map/

I found this online summary of my art. Now I can quit!

https://justseeds.org/no-further-need/

Here’s a link to the site of photographer James Mollison, who has undertaken a great project of portraiture in Indonesia, Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo: Passport photographs of apes...

https://justseeds.org/ape-portraits/

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great time. Here’s a little something for your hangover! The National Science Foundation released a report on the 29th of December... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/happy-new-year/

I recently had an article published in the Portland-based environmental journal Bear Deluxe about the international bushmeat trade and the effects that it’s having on the populations of our clo...

https://justseeds.org/bushmeat-apocalypse/

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then as farce. I forget who said that, but the events unfolding in West Virginia at the site of the largest armed labor... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/return-to-blair-mountain/

I’ve really been enjoying Icky’s process posts on his excellent blog, Blackout Print, and I thought that I’d make one for this blog here. I use a variety of techniques... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/there-is-no-way/

I recently completed this new print, entitled “The Process’, which is now available in the Justseeds store. It feels like something I’ve been trying to make for a long time,... Read More �...

https://justseeds.org/the-process-a-visual-guide-to-mass-extinction/

Who’s heard of Menhaden? Anyone? Show of hands? Certainly not me, before a couple of months ago. Now, however, the oily fish that once schooled in innumerable masses on the... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/the-missing-menhaden/

Take a look at some of these photos of the printing session we had yesterday in rainy Portland. People came over to help jump up and down on the giant... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/justseedstaringpadi-anti-lng-print/

Here’s some pictures from the ongoing Large Print Project in Portland. Icky, Pete and Roger have begun carving a 3′ x 10′ block of lino to make a counterpart to... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/progress-on-the-project/

Here’s a little photo essay showing the printing process used by Indonesian print cooperative Taring Padi, including images from all stages of the process, from sketching to carving to printing...

https://justseeds.org/printing-with-taring-padi/

Here’s a list of ten of my favorite quotes pertaining to the state of the world that I’ve gleaned in the past several years: A: “We don’t change our behavior,... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/a-world-of-wounds/

I’ve recently returned from six weeks traveling in Indonesia, during which I spent a week with the artists of the Taring Padi cooperative in Yogyakarta, Central Java. I’ll be posting... Read...

https://justseeds.org/taring-padi-artist-mohamed-yusuf/

My good friend Dwight, owner-operator of the Tucson multi-functional art/community/print space the Gloo Factory and allied enterprise Peace Supplies has been struggling against eviction from his ...

https://justseeds.org/save-the-gloo-factory/

The 800 individual letters (in solar-panel font) that I helped to print for Katherine of SEA Change Gallery here in Portland were stitched together and made into banners in several... Read More ...

https://justseeds.org/copenhagen-banners/

Welcome to the Teens, hard on the heels of the Noughties. As humanity continues to hack and chew at the earth, extinction rates continue to rise. I have a really... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/gone-predator-collapse-and-extinctions-of-the-00s/

Here’s a little gem that Icky forwarded to me, which is oh-so apropos in the aftermath of the Great Failure of the Copenhagen Forum. Keep on telling yourselves you can... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/star-non-violent-civil-disobediences/

Bike-powered and mostly waterproof.

https://justseeds.org/happy-solsticetime-from-justseeds-hq/

Here’s a couple of photographs from an epic day of screen-printing, Roger of Justseeds and Heather of Flight 64 cranking out hundreds of individual letters for Katherine Ball’s (of SEA... Re...

https://justseeds.org/sea-change-banner-project-for-copenhagen/

First Thursday in Portland, Oregon. It was a rainy, windy night, and still the people came out to partake of the smorgasbord of Justseeds art on display! Two shows opened,... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/portland-openings/

Alas, time’s up for the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat. The tiny winged mammals, endemic to Australia’s Christmas island, are overrun by human-introduced yellow crazy ants, giant centipedes...

https://justseeds.org/todays-extinct-animal-christmas-island-pipistrelle/

Bottled water! Emblem of assholery. None more so than the Fiji Water brand, with its deceptively idiotic campaign to seem ecologically sound and socially responsible. This despite the fact that.....

https://justseeds.org/fiji-water-and-its-discontents/

My colleague Ryan Burns has been hard at work on an ambitious project of late. It’s to be a massive reliquary of the Congo mineral wars; a huge slab of... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/profane-relics-early-research/

I ran into this over on the Information Clearinghouse site, a place I often go for news. This is part of an ad campaign being run in South Africa for... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/history-is-written-by-the-winners/

Justseeds is putting together a book to be published by Microcosm Publishing and we’re all currently hard at work producing illustrations for it; the subject matter is essentially radical perso...

https://justseeds.org/microcosm-book-teaser/

That’s all, folks! The last Jaguar in the United States has been killed. The beast in question, a sixteen year old male named “Macho B”, was euthanized by state biologists... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/no-more-jaguars/

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any depressing stories about doomed animal life on this blog. Now that I’ve actually gone through with the whole moving-to-portland, thing, maybe I’ll....

https://justseeds.org/the-totoaba-croaks/

This is a design I made recently for a t-shirt for the Earth First roadshow. It got me thinking about how nice it would be if the beavers did take... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/earth-first-t-shirt/

The amount of time and energy put into the development of new methods of destroying all life never fails to impress. The contemporary trend of biomimicry in industrial design produces... Read Mo...

https://justseeds.org/machine-animal-destructo-mat/

I’ve just returned from several weeks travel in Mexico, mostly spent at the southern end of the Baja California peninsula. It’s an area with a spectacularly rich marine ecology and... Read M...

https://justseeds.org/report-from-beneath-the-sea/

Hey, remember those Somali pirates who hijacked a ship full of guns and tanks? Today marks their fiftieth day in control of the MV Faina, just off the central Somali... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/somali-pirates-twist-the-knife/

Doom is nigh, as long the Prophets have said. A Plague upon your Houses! Mysterious humours infect the Citadels of Trade.

https://justseeds.org/i-never-get-any-credit/

Hello, fellow apes. I’m here today to tell you about your relatives. I’m referring to the other three African species of Great Ape, namely the gorilla, the chimpanzee and the... Read More »...

https://justseeds.org/eating-apes/

I’ve decided that this blog thing might be useful for regular, depressing updates on the subject that I think about most, namely, extinction. To start off with, I think I’ll... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/todays-extinct-animal-the-lake-atitlan-grebe/

Most of the art I’ve been making lately relates to extinction. It’s not the most uplifting of subjects, but it’s become something of an obsession for me. I know that... Read More »

https://justseeds.org/mass-extinction-thrills-galore/