Carbon Catching Library

The Carbon Catching Library was conceived as an invitation to investigate knowledge about local plants, plant-based carbon catching, propagation, and interspecies care. The intent of the Carbon Catching Library deepens our capacities for plant, soil, and pollinator literacy, which are vital components in our path toward ecological and environmental harmony.

For the FluxKit, Carbon Catching Library takes the form of a set of twelve zines by emerging artists. These zines think through the role of plants and the role of knowledge sharing about plants, in a time when we all understand that we need to be living in better relation with the flora and fauna that have, for too long, simply been taken for granted as resources. Instead, we need to get to know them as verdant kin, and appreciate them for all their gifts, including their carbon-catching capacity as we transition away from extractive energy systems.

At SQUARE, visitors are encouraged to take instruction from the Carbon Catching Library of zines and to start growing their own knowledge and plant-based Carbon Catching Libraries at home, in the workplace, or in any public space available.

Collaborating student artists: Ioana Dragomir, Mélika Hashemi, Rebecca Lai, Amy Leigh, Alissa Rossi, Sumaira Tazeen.