“Given over to Mr. Beeching’s observations,
we become immersed in a palimpsest of temporal
dislocation with past and present co-habiting with an increasingly uncertain future, both for the landscape and the inhabitants. The miniature worlds of lichens and their nature as imbricated organisms - one species folded into another, forming yet a third - the lichen, sets the stage for digressions and allegorical ruminations on the further fit of humans and environment …”
from the editor’s Introduction
