Exploration by Contributing Editor Jared Michael Lowe.

In its only U.S. appearance, Soutine / de Kooning showcases paintings of these two modern icons in dialogue with one another across decades, focusing on abstract portraiture, landscape, and portraiture-as-landscape. A third artist should be entered into that conversation: breakout painter and Philadelphian Jonathan Lyndon Chase.

by Sarah Hartman-Caverly

What happens when you’ve decided to give an animal a dignified end, and don’t succeed? Reflections on homesteading and the animals that feed us, by Sarah Hartman-Caverly.

essay by L. Lu • photos by Matt Weed

Writer L. Lu has traveled around the world, but now questions the imperative to catalog our experiences in social media posts, and what environmental impact these trips have on wild spaces. Is it better to be in the moment, and cultivate community at home?

as told by Corinne Dieterle

A rower on the Schuylkill River encounters a fellow traveler who lives in an encampment on the river. A conversation—and a painting—results.

by Doris Zheku • photos by Ken Hohing

“A New View – Camden” is a site-specific art installation that reclaims land from dumpers and uses recycled materials.

by Joshua Mehigan • “Christag” illustration by Christopher Clark Spencer

Poetry Editor Joshua Mehigan explores two versions of nature, and our own nature, in poems by William Cowper and Mary Meriam.

by Heather Shayne Blakeslee • photo by Eva Wo

Meandering back to monkey business

by Jacquelyn Jordan

Jacquelyn Jordan reflects on her former daily routine in a Philadelphia Public School, and what or who exactly the chain-link fences and padlocks are protecting students from.

by Robert Caverly

Reconnecting with the wilds of Tinicum, and a reminder that it was almost lost to development.

by Diana Lu • photos by Eva Wo

Sea moss emerges from the murky depths of the ocean to feed and nourish, and has fueled commerce for centuries