Outstart

by Samantha Francis

This piece was written in the first light, in the malleable space between sleep and wakefulness,in response to the Something Other call-out for texts on Elasticity.  

Sam is an artist and edgeland naturalist who writes. She has long been fascinated by the colour green. In conversation with non-human life forms, her work explores themes of solitude—often within the landscape—and is shaped by an eco-feminist perspective. Hybrid text is central to her visual practice, emerging through sound, film, installation, print, and reflections on space and place.

Online publications include a piece on the anatomy and culture of nettles in Caught by the River, and place-based texts featured in Vernacular Journal, the Adrift Issue of Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, with other hybrid forms in Gilded Dirt, Seedlings, and Osmosis Press. Her eco-feminist almanac Teasels is published in print by Hazel Press, July 2025.