La Pensée Sauvage: Adrien Missika

What duties of care and forms of cohabitation do our troubled times demand? With what kinds of beings do we identify? Who deserves our affection and attention? Taking lessons from the wild pansy, Missika waters the weeds on the sidewalk and washes the soot from the blackened leaves of plants growing under highways in a sincere performance of pure intentions. Yet elsewhere, he stages the drama of unwanted advances, affectionately rebuffed by a Saguaro cactus. He sees himself mirrored in conjoined twin carrots. In the vibrant excesses of wild thought, botanical and social relations grow into one another, confounding divisions of species, genus and family. — Dehlia Hannah