🧠 🔥🌱 This quote is from an essay, written by Sarah Higgins, that reveals the impetus and ethos for the Fire Ecology project.

The project, eponymous with the essay and the final issue, was created out of a desire to highlight that it is unsustainable for things to “continue as normal” for nonprofit arts publications. Higgins maps the changing conditions that pushed Art Papers to fundamentally rethink and restructure how we approach art writing. 🔄 The essay describes how gradually closing Art Papers allowed the organization to facilitate this rethinking. No longer trapped in the precarious cycle of securing next year’s funding from dwindling sources, the organization has been able to take a step back, and bring its community together to reconsider how this important work is done. 📖 Adapted for publication from a talk given by Higgins at the Art Papers Symposium, read the full essay in the Fire Ecology issue, available now via the link in the @artpapers bio.