the Portage · the carry between watersLA BAIE DES PUANTSthe Bay of Stinking WatersTHE LAKEsunrise waterTHE LEDGEPointe SableLe Mieux Chapelthe Bay of Whispering Wavesto the north country and the Hodagto the Manitowoc wall, a day's walk southup the bay to Escanaba, where the wagon restswestward to the mill cities · a five years' sojournsouth and west to the ruins of the MidwestThe Way Westwardthe leaving and the coming home, five years apart201320122011201020092013 · home to the Bayback across the water to teach the foundations2008 · out from the Baythe last showing struck, the road running westthe river valleythe walk kept hereHighpointthe printing housethe fallsthe ruin kept herethe Stone Archthe walk kept herethe chain of lakesthe walk kept hereLyndalethe walk kept hereBay SettlementWequiockRed BanksBendervilleDyckesvilleBrusselsNamurRosiereChampionLuxemburgCascoAlgomaKewauneeShoemaker PointDuvallBay ViewLincolnEurenThiry DaemsTonetFrog StationWalhainGreen Baythe Old HoldingNTongue of the Archivist · chamber I of sixIKnuckle Reliquary · chamber II of sixIILoam Gospel · chamber III of sixIIIMurk & Ember · chamber IV of sixIVMycelial Threadwork · chamber V of sixVThe Unknot · chamber VI of sixVIthe Wheel0510 milesTHE GROUNDSsurveyed in the naturalist's handWiddershins Project ArchiveThe Sounding-pod of Point au Sable · Pointe Sable, where the creek gives out into the bayaThe Ledge-Sleeper and the Rock's Own Time · the Ledge, where the creek runs cold off the rockbThe Crow Mage of the Ledge · past the Ledge and up, where a maple and a hemlock stand closecThe Skep-Goblin of the St. Anthony Shrine · the woods behind Le Mieux Chapel, Bay SettlementdThe Tidgetrotters of the Stinking Waters · the shallows of the Bay of Stinking WaterseFinnegan, the Tidgetrotter Cartographer · outbound over the Bay of Whispering WavesfThe Rimewrights of the Under-Ice · the frozen creek, at the under-icegThe Cap-folk of the Field-Margins · the hardwoods toward CascohLe Loup d'Eau · Algoma, where waters meetiwiddershins

the leaves lie in order; turn them back to the rock · drag to pan · scroll to zoom · past 3× the ground gives up small things · the ⊕ marks go down · the marks, listed below ·

Widdershins Project Archive

Widdershins

the Chart of the Grounds · the bay, the lake, and the Ledge between

A bioregional animism practice, structured around six mythic chambers that turn counter-clockwise, against the grain of forgetting. The living land around us is alive, sacred, and speaking, most legibly through the one place you actually inhabit.

The widdershins are the small spirit-creatures who stand in for everything we forget when we move too quickly through the world. The work is rewilding made walkable: re-gnoming a de-gnomed world, returning what has been paved, tamed, and made legible-for-extraction back toward wildness.

The Wheel

Six chambers, turning widdershins. Each rewilds something specific: archive, making, land-devotion, grief, correspondence, release.

  1. 01Tongue of the Archivist · Speech, memory, the alchemy of language. Documentation as devotion.
  2. 02Knuckle Reliquary · Craft, embodiment, tactile wisdom. The sacred is built, not bought.
  3. 03Loam Gospel · Devotion to land, ecology, soil wisdom. A theology of place.
  4. 04Murk & Ember · Descent, grief, transformation through darkness.
  5. 05Mycelial Threadwork · Connection, correspondence, communal knowing.
  6. 06The Unknot · Paradox, release, unlearning.