Wetlands embody potential in their perpetually undefined qualities. The alligator has survived 65 million years within these intermingled depths. Fugitive slaves fled from plantations in the American south and the Caribbean, founding egalitarian maroons in swamps and forests. Although dwindling, this commingling of land and water generates a shrouded space for the most complex biodiversity of all planetary ecosystems. 

Soft Slough is an offering of possibility, where we might become subsumed in murky depths of interconnectedness: envisioning ourselves outside of the realms of failing societal strictures, de-and-recomposing, becoming of a place where a myriad of different practices, relations, and worlds are suspended together. 

“For near-future reference: muck is one part water,
One part what-have-you,
Including yourself, now in it over your head,
As upright as ever.”

- David Wagoner
From Walking in a Swamp