dapple green : august ‘21
Contributor Elpitha Tsoutsounakis picked up Dapple Green from the side of the road on a hot morning in early summer. The spot was dappled in shade from a Cottonwood tree. The pigment comes from the Chinle formation, deposited during the Triassic Era, in a region in the ancestral territories of the Dine, Hopi, Zuni, and Ute Mountain Ute. The green indicates a period of iron reduction during high water levels.
contributor : Elpitha Tsoutsounakis
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis (she/her) is a Cretan-American designer, printer, and educator based in so-called Salt Lake City, Utah. She is an Assistant Professor and founding faculty in the Multi-disciplinary Design program at the University of Utah where she teaches design studios, research methods, and visual strategy. Her education in architecture informs her design research and creative practice in printmaking, book arts, and Ochres, engaging issues of design ethics, materiality, ecofeminism, and the human relationship to the more-than-human.
Photo from Elpitha’s website elpitha.studio
Photo from the Utah Diné Bikéyah website utahdinebikeyah.org
22% donation recipient : Utah Diné Bikéyah
Utah Diné Bikéyah is a Native American-led, values-driven organization that recognizes the deep and ongoing spiritual connection between indigenous people and the land. UDB operates at the intersection between culture and conservation, by promoting land protection that honors and includes human societies that have existed in ecosystems since time immemorial. UDB seeks to heal people and the Earth by ensuring that sacred ancestral lands remain intact for future generations of all people.
Text from Utah Diné Bikéyah’s Mission and Vision on their website, utahdinebikeyah.org