For the past few days, the mist is being particularly electric as it tenaciously sculpts the landscape. On Sunday morning bright and early we went to catch the new moon low tide in Moss Beach. Lots of new non-human friends such as anemones, crustaceans and hermit crabs to add to my current list of hawks, crickets, gophers and alligator lizards...

Yesterday was our first full day at Djerassi. Danny Goldberg took us on a hike in the mid-afternoon. We departed from the Artist's Barn and walked a loop trail.

Along the way, we stopped at the many different artworks made by previous residents and Danny explained the botanicals along the pathway. The poison oak was especially evocative, with its many forms, shape-changing along the trail—from light green matte semi-translucent leaves in wispy singular growths to thick dark green oily leaves in tall dense bushes to bright red leafy lines.

Leonardo is honored to announce Mary Anne Staniszewski and Yiannis Colakides as the new coordinators/editors of the Leonardo Graduate Abstracts (LGA). This program, a crucial part of the Leonardo Educators and Students initiative, features a comprehensive database of graduate thesis abstracts at the intersection of arts, sciences, and technology. The abstracts cover diverse fields such as visual arts, sound, performing arts, computer sciences, and other technological disciplines, focusing on philosophical, historical, critical, or applied science and technology aspects in the arts. Initiated at Pomona College, the English-language database aims to spotlight interdisciplinary work often overlooked in existing theses repositories.