making a different difference

Miles Astray
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the differences we do and don't make

I haven't been posting much on social media this summer, because it all feels somewhat trivial when following the news on Gaza. No matter what side or fence one sits on—politically and ethically—in this historically complex conflict, there is no justification for Israel’s indiscriminate and genocidal military strategy.

Raising my little public voice has produced no significant echo, so I’m getting in line behind all the world’s activists, organizations, and governments who have been terribly unable to make a difference. While I’m waiting in that line—moving with steps that don’t match the urgency—I will talk about some other important things.

a billboard-big embrace of our differences

My work E Y E V E R S I T Y will be featured in billboard-size at two outdoor venues in the US—the Sarasota Bayfront Park and the St. Petersburg’s Poynter Park—as part of 2026's Embracing Our Differences exhibition between January and March. Check out this video to see how the picture ties into the important and timely theme, linking diversity and unity:

action activism and gender justice

Can't disclose any details yet, but my image human meteor will be part of an exhibition on gender justice. For the story behind this shot, check out my essay Action Activism:

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SALASAKA

Progressing ever faster and further towards a materialistic, digital, and artificial world, we're stretching our roots in nature just short of severing them. The deep, ancient knowledge native to indigenous communities around the world must not be forgotten if we want to master our global challenges by living with this planet, not against it.

Salasaka—an indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Andes—is a bridge between our natural past and sustainable future, and the Salasakan’s fight for conservation of their own cultural identities and heritage ties directly into humanity’s larger battle for survival, proving that we can preserve and progress simultaneously.

This project also aims to transform the reductive, exoticized, and fetishized notion that indigenous people are just that—indigenous—as though foreigners to modernity and ordinary lives. Here's a visual excerpt: