The marsh is a convening of shallow water, tall grasses, cattails, and egrets. This ecosystem is the meeting place of land and water— muddy and thick, fluid and adaptable. Its liminality between water and land, and therefore refusal to be firmly categorized, make marshes a compelling point of entry to study human relations to unruly ecologies, landscapes that defy settler colonial logics of commodification and control through their very existence.

Sites: The Ballona Wetlands and the Gowanus Canal