NOTE: A video poem engagement with an Aleppo Pine in the harbor of Cassis, France; a crip drift, with attention to mobility, disability, interdependence, temporality, pulse and sun song. Crip drifts are methods for moving through the world as a disabled artist living with pain: touching, being-with, sensing in a world that is likewise disabled, compromised, thriving in complexity. A collaboration between Petra Kuppers and the tree. Shot while in residence at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, 2024.

Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist, a scooter user, and a community performance artist. Her fourth poetry collection, Diver Beneath the Street, investigates true crime and ecopoetry at the level of the soil, bringing together life and death (2024).  Her previous collection, Gut Botany (2020), was named one of the top ten US poetry books of 2020 by the New York Public Library and won the Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. She teaches at the University of Michigan and was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. She is currently at work on Planting Disabled Futures, a virtual reality/community performance project, as a Just Tech Fellow (2024-2026).