nahuatl word for the space in between, neither here nor there, neither one thing nor another. gloria anzaldua names it as the site of transformation: the uncomfortable creative threshold where old frameworks have broken down and new ones haven't yet formed. not a failure state. where change is actually made.

the philosophical deepening of ecotonal practice. the ecotone describes the productive boundary from outside, from ecology. nepantla names the lived experience of being in that boundary: the disorientation, the generativity, and the refusal to resolve.

working across languages, disciplines, and geographies, geography/poetry, print/digital, mexico/canada, and spanish/english. none of these are contradictions i need to resolve. they are the in-between where my actual work lives. the map, the zine, the cli, and the garden: all made in the in-between.