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Grow Like a Tree is a book for curious children of all ages, exploring the life cycle of trees and the role forest fires play in this process.
Illustrator Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton and author Lisa Silvestri began developing this book in the summer of 2018 when wildfires raged in the mountains of the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Southwest Canada. Grow Like a Tree poses questions drawn from their lived experience as new mothers during that hot, smokey summer. This book is that attempt to explain the complexity of the ecosystem and nurture a sustained curiosity about the interconnectedness of the living world.
Each illustration is a collage of paper cutouts painted with foraged ink on watercolor paper. The foraged materials include copper, sumac, horse chestnut, chokecherries, and a railroad spike. The items were found on the forest floor and throughout the urban jungle. The goal for the book is to inspire readers to dwell in wonder at the lifeworld around them.
Releasing May 2, 2025. Pre-Order Now!
“I wonder if there is an exact moment
When I gave up the idea of permanence.”
The Scent of a Thousand Rains by Damon Falke is a love story. A man finds himself alone in an apartment in Budapest. He peers from the window to discover a woman standing on her balcony. Their unlikely connection sends him on a journey through his memories to reckon with the places and people that have ordered his life. A literary exploration of a life lived in pursuit, the book-length poem suggests that in a life of transience and loss, love and imagination are the only things that remain to us and of us.
The Scent of a Thousand Rains premiered as a theatre production, adapted for the stage and directed by Charles M Pepiton. It was a performance in verse for an actor and a violinist. The music for the production was composed and arranged by Tana Bachman-Bland.
Laura, or Scenes from a Common World, is a 5-part, long poem by Damon Falke.
In English & Norwegian, translated by Martin Egeberg
The poem was the basis for Square Top Theatre’s 2016 award winning film of the same title.
Read more about the film here: http://www.squaretoptheatre.org/laura/
Laura explores one woman’s struggle to make herself at home in the world. Her struggle begins as a common one. A boy has left her. In losing him, she becomes less sure of the roles other people play in her self-creation. She seeks security in isolation only to find that landscape, community, and physical embodiment all ground who we are in ways she cannot escape.
