Pull up a log, pass the snacks, and crack open the creative canteen! We’re trading stories by the campfire. Field Notes is where we share reflections on ethical marketing, creative ecosystems, and what it looks like to build work that cares for people and planet. These essays explore care-centered business, relational community building, and creative practices rooted in liberation and integrity. Think of this space as an evolving notebook, ideas gathered in the field and shared in community.
Field Notes
Reflections on Ethical Business and Creative Practice
Why Creative Ecosystems Matter More Than Personal Brands
Personal brand culture asks creatives to perform endlessly and extract from themselves. This essay explores why creative ecosystems (rooted in relationship, reciprocity, and care) offer a more sustainable way to build work that can last.
A Field Guide for Creatives Ready to Grow Outside the Grind
Field Zine Vol. 01 is part manifesto, part field guide—a creative offering for artists, makers, and thinkers ready to break up with hustle culture and reclaim their creative practice. Designed with intention, this zine moves through four organic phases—Compost, Seed, Tend, and Bloom—offering gentle prompts, collage-style visuals, and room to return to your most instinctual creative rhythms. This blog shares the story behind the zine, its purpose, and why it was created as an act of resistance and return. Perfect for creatives seeking slow growth, deeper meaning, and liberation from content culture.
Nature’s Blueprint: A Guide to Biomimicry and Decolonized Creativity in Business
Discover how biomimicry and decolonized creativity can reshape the way you work. In this blog, we explore what it means to rewild your creative practice by learning from nature’s patterns and unlearning colonized approaches to productivity, perfectionism, and self-censorship. If you’ve ever felt stuck in hustle culture or disconnected from your creative flow, this is your invitation to return to rhythm, reciprocity, and regeneration.
Working Like Nature: Transform Your Work with Sustainable and Regenerative Practices
What would your work look like if it followed the rhythms of nature: slow, cyclical, regenerative, and deeply interconnected? This guide explores how to transform your creative work and business by aligning with ecological principles instead of hustle culture. Learn why working like nature is essential for sustainability, well-being, and meaningful impact.
You’ll notice many of these essays circling shared questions around ethical marketing, creative ecosystems, and what it means to build business at a more human pace. We hope you enjoy.