Fire Ecology: The Final Issue This special issue of ART PAPERS is the synthesis and culmination of a three-year project, initiated in response to fatal budget shortfalls, to extend the life of the organization for a period that would allow for a dignified end. The plan, inspired by Indigenous practices of ecological stewardship through intentional burning, took up the metaphor of Fire Ecology, the practice of maintaining ecosystem health by using fire to burn old growth, thereby fertilizing the soil and allowing new growth to thrive. - Table of Contents Editors Letter Sarah Higgins Artist Project—From the Ametsuchi Series Rinko Kawauchi Atlanta Art Ecosystems Distilled by Jaedon Clarke Mason Brief Histories Fawz Kabra and Isak Berbic Artist Project—Failure as Futuremaking Be Oakley / Genderfail Fire Ecology Sarah Higgins Art Writing & Publishing Symposium Distilled by Jaedon Clarke Mason Tools For Carving Away— Mel Chin’s Revival Field & the Role of the Artist in Public Practice Heather Bird Harris Death, and the Afterlife Amy Miller The Project of Ending Jordan Eddy in conversation with Tempestt Hazel and with Sarah Higgins Artist Project—Burying Painting James Perkins Glossary: Hyperstition (n.) Cannupa Hanska Luger COVER IMAGE: Rinko Kauwauchi, Untitled, from the series Ametsuchi, 2012, [courtesy of the artist and Rose Gallery, Los Angeles]
