Uncharted

Fauxliage

Biosphere 2, artificial nature, taxidermy, pastel dioramas, synthetic gardens, and biomimetics.

Jul 27 • 

Ryder Kimball

3

Lithium Mirage

Cerulean pools shimmering in the hothouse heat, building a vision for the distant future, and whether a California sacrifice zone can be transformed.

Jul 2 • 

Ryder Kimball

4

2

May 2025

Digital Replicas

Tuvalu in the metaverse, digital twins, glitchy clouds, rainforests X-rayed, dire wolves resurrected, Voyager-1 among the cosmos, and a simulated Earth.

May 7 • 

Ryder Kimball

5

2

April 2025

Rivers of Blood

Rusting waterways, acid electrification, CIA coups in Chile, and bleeding gods. An essay about mining nickel and copper to decarbonize energy systems…

Apr 20 • 

Ryder Kimball

5

The Limits of Modeling

Chaos theory, climate models, annihilation of mystery, approximate maps, and melting ice. An essay about Earth's decreasing albedo and the loss of its…

Apr 6 • 

Ryder Kimball

6

3

March 2025

Giant Squids and Energy Scars

Examining the cost of critical mineral extraction and transitioning energy landscapes in North America

Mar 20 • 

Ryder Kimball

5

February 2025

22,000 Orbits

Observations on satellite imagery, the compression of meaning, and the emergence of living maps.

Feb 20 • 

Ryder Kimball

9

The Sound & The Fury: Climate Semiotics

There’s a popular Tweet that’s gone viral during recent catastrophic weather events.

Feb 2 • 

Ryder Kimball

4

5

January 2025

Alienation

A visual essay on climate change's alienation of Earth's landscapes, colonial terraforming, deep sea hydrothermal vents, melting glaciers, invasive…

Jan 27 • 

Ryder Kimball

5

2

Liminal Las Vegas

The sky is baby blue, the sunlight is a thousand incandescent light bulbs, and it smells of stale cigarettes and chlorine.

Jan 24 • 

Ryder Kimball

3

Uncanny Landscapes

Climate change has pushed Earth into the uncanny valley, a liminal area that is increasingly unrecognizable and terrifyingly strange.

Jan 23 • 

Ryder Kimball

5