Show threadPatrik 🐨Jan 21, 2023

"As we move upstream, the foliage blurs into an anticipated order of branches and leaves. The dark break in this pattern sends a startle down the optic nerve. The shadow moves again, before its formlessness resolves: a moose. Head lifting, he steps clear of the willows, keeping one round eye always on us."

Bathsheba Demuth on a #Gwitchin #Moose Hunt.

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https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/living-in-the-bones/

Living in the Bones

On a moose hunt north of the Arctic Circle, Bathsheba Demuth observes two contrasting narratives manifest along the banks of the Ch’izhΓ¬n Nji: one of conquest, another of quiet knowing and restraint.

Emergence Magazine