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I posted my keynote talk @kswildlands transcript at www.coyoteandthunder.com. The lecture is called Resiliency, and it's dedicated to you.

The mountain and the elk decide where the lion makes her territory; the alder works with the river to determine where and how this year's flowers will bloom. Everyone here makes a difference, everyone here is essential. #trailpaintings

The #californiafieldatlas is now available for purchase, directly from me at www.californiafieldatlas.com. I will sign every copy I ship, let me know who I can inscribe each copy to. $65 - includes shipping and tax. I'm still working on the site, but it is basically presentable and functional and in addition to being able the purchase the book, you will find a bunch of links to my essays at www.coyoteandthunder.com which remains the center of my online world. #trailpaintings

Tomorrow I'll be signing copies of the #californiafieldatlas at one of my very favorite bookstores: @pointreyesbooks in Point Reyes Station on Highway 1, about an hour north of San Francisco. I'll be there from 4pm to 6pm. Come raise a glass with me to the return of rain. #trackingthunderbirds #trailpaintings

The toughest lessons, now under the wet ash of Raven's black glass, rain-spread wing. The dream of flowers to again come up and the cool green of the pine returning to this gray and reset earth is the only bitter promise our fires afford. We wrap our hearts in a cold mirror to reflect the char of nature's most hungry force, and our eyes blink clean the smoky tears out from the tilled ground as we gather to replant and rebuild. There has always only been one way through this. #californiafieldatlas

This month, the #californiafieldatlas is featured in Sunset Magazine, western edition - November 2017, @sunsetmag page 12. Editorial by @jessedit, photography by @paulnemirahcollins. What an excellent month for press attention around my grand project. People are responding more positively to this book than I ever dared to predict. You can feel it in the air: this thirst for a nature-first narrative and connection to the living world of earth, air, fire and water; an antidote to the national, political miasma. Books are now available everywhere; you can get it directly from me too, signed and shipped $65. Email me coyoteandthunder@gmail.com. My heart now is a river of rainbows and wildflowers.

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2016 Coastal Nat’l Monument Additions

CALIFORNIA; A Field Atlas

2016 Coastal Nat’l Monument Additions

What follows are the drafts I’ve been working on for the Bureau of Land Management, a series of commemorative, handpainted maps that describe the additions to the California Coastal National Monument, 2016. #fieldatlas #trailpaintings

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I posted my keynote talk @kswildlands transcript at www.coyoteandthunder.com. The lecture is called Resiliency, and it's dedicated to you.

The mountain and the elk decide where the lion makes her territory; the alder works with the river to determine where and how this year's flowers will bloom. Everyone here makes a difference, everyone here is essential. #trailpaintings

The #californiafieldatlas is now available for purchase, directly from me at www.californiafieldatlas.com. I will sign every copy I ship, let me know who I can inscribe each copy to. $65 - includes shipping and tax. I'm still working on the site, but it is basically presentable and functional and in addition to being able the purchase the book, you will find a bunch of links to my essays at www.coyoteandthunder.com which remains the center of my online world. #trailpaintings

Tomorrow I'll be signing copies of the #californiafieldatlas at one of my very favorite bookstores: @pointreyesbooks in Point Reyes Station on Highway 1, about an hour north of San Francisco. I'll be there from 4pm to 6pm. Come raise a glass with me to the return of rain. #trackingthunderbirds #trailpaintings

The toughest lessons, now under the wet ash of Raven's black glass, rain-spread wing. The dream of flowers to again come up and the cool green of the pine returning to this gray and reset earth is the only bitter promise our fires afford. We wrap our hearts in a cold mirror to reflect the char of nature's most hungry force, and our eyes blink clean the smoky tears out from the tilled ground as we gather to replant and rebuild. There has always only been one way through this. #californiafieldatlas

This month, the #californiafieldatlas is featured in Sunset Magazine, western edition - November 2017, @sunsetmag page 12. Editorial by @jessedit, photography by @paulnemirahcollins. What an excellent month for press attention around my grand project. People are responding more positively to this book than I ever dared to predict. You can feel it in the air: this thirst for a nature-first narrative and connection to the living world of earth, air, fire and water; an antidote to the national, political miasma. Books are now available everywhere; you can get it directly from me too, signed and shipped $65. Email me coyoteandthunder@gmail.com. My heart now is a river of rainbows and wildflowers.

Up in the high desert where Raven has hid all the rainbows in the stones and flowers, where Coyote freed his laughter from the golden box, and where fire and snow are just different songs sung by the same bird - we are amazed at how, nestled inside the infinite eye, our mirror bends and reveals that all the natural world is open to us, yielding to the soft echo of our delight.

Surfing a million years between river and sky, the eagles tend to their corners of the west where they gladly watch the water saw its way deeper into the stone. My eyes are as old as these rocks but don't see nearly as much. #trackingthunderbirds

Tonight, I'll be at Snow Peak - 410 NW 14th street, Portland, Oregon - signing copies of the #californiafieldatlas from 5pm to 7pm. #trackingthunderbirds #trailpaintings @snowpeakusa @snowpeakpdx

The only way I ever could've written the #californiafieldatlas was to take the place as an extension of my own expression, to creatively own its topographic and ecological makeup from day one of its drafting. I've never been satisfied with the broadly painted banded-zones that are so often taught as introductory geographic dogma to California's natural world; the place exhibits such localized, robust biodiversity that as naturalists and cartographers, we should endeavor to express these unique, networked localities in all the maximized, poetic glory that they afford us. Of course this means that I will never be done redressing California again and again - it is my beautiful well, my participatory process of infinite inspiration, my exceptional muse /// first-printing copies of The California Field Atlas, featuring hundreds of my hand-painted maps of how California's natural world work, are still available from me directly for $65 ($100 international) which includes shipping and taxes. Email me at coyoteandthunder@gmail.com. Obi

Being careful, in whatever social system, is always about being respectful. And being respectful is about being able to read the situation of any given community, and being able to read the normal workings of that community. There is a ritual to all ecological workings and that ritual uses living systems that disclose to us clues about when and where to step. #trailpaintings

Tonight I had the distinct honor of delivering the keynote address to the @kswildlands annual fundraising dinner. The Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center is one of our country's great land conservation organizations - an organization I've stood behind again and again on issue after issue. These days we are spending most of our fight, defending the #cascadesiskiyounationalmonument from the political and corporate interests that see our nation's natural legacy as a spendable and extractable commodity. I was so proud tonight, blinded by the bright, hot lights to not break in my strongest voice, calling on the galvanization of this excellent network of caring souls to again rally and continue to give voice to the so often voiceless forces of Wilderness and its defense. #trackingthunderbirds

Tiny bird with iris eyes and a head full of diamond catches the pictures behind her mirrored eye, jeweled knife wings pulse in an ungiving sky dyed red with smoke. Her body is not hers, nor is it the rivers where she dives and dies everyday. We know it is part of the plan, of living on the avenue of fire: we decide what is real and what is not, hopefully before we burn. We still never get used to it, these crying trees that beg to succumb to cinder in a language we can't understand. And if we do, it is only because we share the bird's diamond mind, and realize too that our bodies are also not ours forever. #trackingthunderbirds

Where fashion is defined by novelty and seasonality, style is about not fucking too much with what has come before. I'm so glad to have struck a fine balance between these forces with @indigoferajeans and our California Hiking Series, available now @74ozshop @burgundschild @blueowlworkshop @denim_heads_prague @dreist_wuerzburg @pawelfasterdog @hepcatstore @jamesdant_astoreformen @jeanslifestore @royalcheeseparis @standardandstrange @statement_store @vmcoriginal Obsidian throne not included. #trailstococktails photo by @paulnemirahcollins

The editorial feature of me and my #californiafieldatlas is in the current issue of Juxtapoz Magazine. @juxtapozmag Called "From Middle Earth to Oakland" (a title that should bring a smile to those of you who know me well) this personal interview is perhaps my most revealing yet. With portraits by @paulnemirahcollins, I'm so proud to share this honor with my brothers and sisters at @premiumtattoooakland @indigoferajeans @standardandstrange and @havstadhatco. This picture was designed by @rave.agency

The old growth light is the first light echoing from round time that is as much future as it is past. In our un-careful ways we've trodden in the sacred mud and drying there, we are driven as a fever from the body of our birth. Respect is the same in all living systems: observe the rituals, see the cycles and by this be welcome. The feather light green in the great trees leaves that I trace loudly ring to me the greatest and most beautiful of all truths: that no thing is this world escapes the grander symphony of nature, and that we are continually invited to extinguish our persistent and ranging fire of alienation. #trackingthunderbirds

Rolling into Mendocino tonight on the #trackingthunderbirds tour celebrating the #californiafieldatlas. Come to the #gallerybookstore and share a glass of wine, consider my #trailpaintings and we'll commiserate on the wildfires. Thank you everyone who came out to Arcata last night to #northtownbooks. What a great evening! It was so wonderful to wake up this morning on the beach with rain on my face - positively baptismal.

Fire is everywhere. California's brutal October burn has come this year with such quick fury that it has completely overwhelmed apprehension. There is little response, even despite decades of study on the ritual of ecological succession - but panic that our tiny human selves are able process, right now. People and wildlife move together in a sprinting wave away from their homes - in so many cases, abandoning everything they've ever known with only a thought of surviving for the next ten minutes. Hundreds of miles away, the brown-gray haze is still perfumed with the bitterest sweetness. Our hearts, like so many closed-cone pines, now cracked by the flames and charred, lay on the black floor with only the distant whisper of new life, on the far away horizon; a sad bell in the noon-time twilight. #trackingthunderbirds

Tomorrow, we'll be rambling north through the smoke to get to #northtownbooks in Arcata. I'll be there signing copies of the #californiafieldatlas from 7pm till 9pm. I've got a new batch of #trailpaintings too, as I now live in a river of watercolor, fire and starshine.

The parallels between wildlife painting, calligraphy and map making are for me, obvious. Fluid moves across the rendering plane as I search for understanding in form and meaning through a process of atonement in topography. Someday I'll be moved to only paint circles and other warm shapes - truth is one, and in the big, convoluted, multi-formed world, I am only interested in one thing. #trailpaintings #californiafieldatlas #trackingthunderbirds

Obi Kaufmann Art Archive

In Defense of the Western Wilderness…

Conservation Alliance
Ventana Wilderness Alliance
Condor Trail
Yuba River League
Los Padres Forest Watch
Pacific Crest Trail Assoc.
Klamath Siskiyou Wild
Yuba Salmon Now
Friends of the Inyo
Western Rivers
Wilderness Land Trust
Los Padres Forest Assoc.
Friends of the River
California Wilderness Project
The Wilderness Society

The Storytelling Sponsors…

The Storytelling Retailers…

The Storytelling Artists…

Jered Nelson, Pottery
Nathaniel Parsons, Carving
Claudio Martonffy, Architecture
Peter St. Lawrence, Ceramics
Crystal Morey, Sculpture
Alison Tharp, New Media
Derek Weisberg, Sculpture
Steelee Faltis, Illustration
Dave Higgins, Illustration
Julie Harleman, Proprietor
Kate Williams, Director
Chris Sewell, Proprietor
Chris Adamiak, Maker
Greg Hennes, Snake Oil Salesman
Mikael Kennedy, Photography
Jeff Thrope, Consultant
Alana Douvros, Designer/jewelry
Marisa Haskell, Designer/Jewelry
Josh Chen, Designer/Branding
Ali Golden, Designer/Clothing
August Varlack, Acupuncturist
David Polka, Graphic Design/Art
David Lyle, Paintings
Ciel Bergman, Paintings
Gus Elg, Audio Mastering
Rachel Craven, Textiles
Lauren Wolf, Designer/Jewelry
Eric Bowley, Studio Arts
Tom Bonamici, Ecological Arts
Merrick Rhodes, Photography
Skyler Greene, Producer
Nirav Patel, Photographer
Patrick Dunaway, Illustration
Matthew Decker, Tattoo
Kirby Stenger, Photography
Rod Hipskind, Art Director
Cory Jarman, Road Paintings
Drew Heffron, Art Director
John Casey, Illustration/Painting
Brody Leven, Adventure/Storytelling
Gale Straub, Storytelling/Photography
Yumiko Sakuma, Journalist
Kelly Ishikawa, Photography
Eric Kvatek, Photography
Frederick A. Bouchardy, Perfumer
Nicholas Weinstein, Herbalist
Brian Caraway, Paintings
Catherine Meng, Poetry
Lena & Matt Reynoso, Gallery Owners

The Storytelling Media…

MAKERS WORKSHOP
RAWRDENIM
A CONTINUOUS LEAN
MONOCLE
GRIST
CAMPTREND
HUCKBERRY
MOHAWK
RACKED
JACKTHREADS
ANCESTRY QUARTERLY
SELVEDGE RUN
DESERT & DENIM
CAPSULE SHOW
ECOCOLO JAPAN
ITS MY DARLIN’
SOLIFLORE NOTES
WILDERNESS COLLECTIVE
THE ATLAS MAGAZINE
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