The logo of The Warren is commissioned art by Alex CF, lead singer of the band Fall of Efrafa (FOE). FOE produced a trilogy of albums inspired by the novel Watership Down which depicts rabbits escaping captivity and seeking free and shared lives.
The design consists of native wild plants (Bull Thistle, Black eyed Susans, and Rose of Sharon) surrounding the bones of a rabbit at the opening of a network of burrows – or a warren.
These three plants represent the garden lots where wild native plants will be grown along with agricultural vegetables. Wildness tends to its bones. The dead stalks of plants become home to insects and microbes as they decay into the top soil of landscapes. Our project will care for the bones of bodies in decay: the bones of a building constructed in 1909, the bones of impoverished populations picked bare by being segregated to “social death”, the bones of scattered histories of collective escape and shared lives.
Warren is also the name of a person from the local “scattered history” of Evansville. Josiah Warren was a resident of New Harmony and often referred to as “the first American Anarchist”. He was an inventor and artisan, a musician and social philosopher. Warren helped connect a sort of warren in his own life time by founding five “utopian communities” as well as a series of “Time Stores” that functioned via labor exchange and alternative currency.
“In the new moon dark, a small child slipped, alone, through the iron gates of the Warren community garden…He moved stealthily between the deflated, wildish rows of leafy shadows, looking for anything familiar. He finally started pulling at everything he could touch until he found shapes he recognized…” MAROONS by adrienne maree brown
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