Although my work foregrounds process over product, what I call “byproducts” (aka deliverables, outcomes, extensions) are nevertheless co-created along the journey of my collaborative research process. These byproducts take the form of artwork, talks, workshops, courses, additional research projects, exhibition opportunities, consulting, commissions, and mentorship. I am not the best at “advertising” these byproducts, but they are always available. To inquire about any of them, please feel free to contact me here.
Recently, however, Oika’s oikanomic model of ecological abundance has created a scenario where “advertising” can serve a larger purpose. This has compelled me to experiment with this landing page that features a sampling of byproducts yielded specifically from Oika Projects. Under each listing below, you will find brief descriptions, a link to the relevant Oika project, and details on the oikanomic model; ie, how profits from sales work to recouple economy to ecology.
You’ll still need to contact me for inquiries. But hopefully this page provides a window into the larger oikanomic project of reinstating a healthy economic system that operates in right-relationship to healthy ecological systems. To learn more about the idea, other Oika projects, and Oika in general, visit here.
Please note, prices do not include tax or shipping.
Epson Ultrachrom HDX on Hahnemühle German Etching paper 310gsm
12x18” unframed
From "Extending Ecology," an ongoing collaboration with Rich Blundell, Rita Leduc, and the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire, USA. These six mixed media drawings by Rita Leduc, offered here as limited edition archival prints (approx. 12x18", available individually), depict a process-oriented visual narrative of research in Hubbard Brook's gorge regarding how the light spills and shares itself into the forest.
Certificate of Authenticity included with each print.
The Gorge Light Series is part of the Extending Ecology Oika Project.
Oikanomic contribution to regeneration: 50% of proceeds go to the artist, 25% is dedicated to Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest research and communication efforts, and 25% is allocated to new Oika projects and people.
*originals available (30”x50”); please inquire.
Eelgrass Collage I (Nantucket Harbor, Summer 2024)
$10,000 base; see here for current value as it corresponds to Nantucket Harbor’s current pH level
Eelgrass Collage I (Nantucket Harbor, Summer 2024) and corresponding collages II & III are artworks made from Oika: Nantucket Eelgrass & pH, a scientific and creative research project on ocean acidification and its impacts on eelgrass in Nantucket Harbor. In Summer 2024, as Maria Mitchell Association’s visiting scientist-in-residence, Dr. Rich Blundell facilitated the deployment of two sensors: a state-of-the-art oceanographic buoy that continuously measures pH, nutrient levels, dissolved oxygen, temperature, salinity and chlorophyll in the water column, and an artist (Rita Leduc) into the water. Leduc immersed herself in the eelgrass ecosystem to collect visual data that reflected the many sensations of relationality she felt at different levels from the sea floor. The resulting artwork expresses a lived-experience of relationality between Leduc and Nantucket Harbor’s eelgrass ecosystem.
As an Oika Research project, Nantucket Eelgrass & pH investigates the ecological intelligence of nature and then links local culture and ecology systemically to local economies. To accomplish this, the long-term value of the artwork is algorithmically linked to the pH as measured in real time by the buoy. By intertwining scientific data with artistic data, Oika Research: Nantucket Eelgrass & pHcommunicates the continuity between the health of the harbor and the health of our human condition.
Oikanomic contribution to regeneration: 33.3% of proceeds go to the artist, 33.3% is dedicated to MMA’s Harbor Acidification Monitoring Program, and 33.3% is allocated to new Oika projects and people.
"Extending Ecology: Making Meaning with the White Mountains" was an exhibition at the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State, New Hampshire, in Fall 2023. Curated by Meghan Doherty, the exhibition featured text and artwork pairings from an ongoing Oika collaboration between Rich Blundell (ecologist), Rita Leduc (artist), and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (forest). As stated by David Syring, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of San Diego, this exhibition made public "a new way of responding to ans thinking about a perilous moment in the evolutionary experiment that is our human consciousness."
The catalog includes a full essay by Syring entitled, "Arts, Humanities, & Sciences: Emergent, Necessary Unities for Thinking and Dwelling as Humans-Being-on-Earth."
Catalog, "Extending Ecology: Making Meaning with the White Mountains" is part of the Extending Ecology Oika Project.
Oikanomic contribution to regeneration: 50% of proceeds go to the artist, 25% is dedicated to Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest research and communication efforts, and 25% is allocated to new Oika projects and people.
From Oika Nantucket, Leduc's visual inquiry on Nantucket in 2023 explored the changes in character in the color gray as it traversed from the Grey Lady's port and downtown area to the forests and moors. An investigation into what can be unearthed in an ecosystem's "grey areas," the work interrogates the existence of boundaries until they break character and dissolve.
Oikanomic contribution to regeneration: 50% of proceeds go to the artist, 25% is dedicated to Nantucket ocean acidification research, restoration, and communication efforts, and 25% is allocated to new Oika projects and people.
From Oika Nantucket, Leduc's visual inquiry on Nantucket in 2023 explored the changes in character in the color gray as it traversed from the Grey Lady's port and downtown area to the forests and moors. An investigation into what can be unearthed in an ecosystem's "grey areas," the work interrogates the existence of boundaries until they break character and dissolve. This is the source collage for the larger graphite drawing, made from photos of Nantucket and visual data collected on Nantucket by Rita.
The Grey Lady (collage) is part of the Oika Nantucket Project.
Oikanomic contribution to regeneration: 50% of proceeds go to the artist, 25% is dedicated to Nantucket ocean acidification research, restoration, and communication efforts, and 25% is allocated to new Oika projects and people.
From "Oika Art Nantucket," an Oika research residency and exhibition in 2023. A series of 10, 4"x4" collages made from Nantucket "visual data:" gray-toned scraps from photographs, marks collected in-situ, and shades of Nantucket-approved paint colors all cut in shapes that reference the architecture and nature of Nantucket. Together, the 10 collages mimic a 10-step value scale that depicts the culture-to-nature continuity from Main Street Nantucket to Nantucket's "Enchanted Forest."
Oikanomic contribution to regeneration: 50% of proceeds go to the artist, 25% is dedicated to Nantucket ocean acidification research, restoration, and communication efforts, and 25% is allocated to new Oika projects and people.
From "Oika Art Nantucket," an Oika research residency and exhibition in 2023. A series of 10, 4"x4" printed cards of collages made from Nantucket "visual data:" gray-toned scraps from photographs, marks collected in-situ, and shades of Nantucket-approved paint colors all cut in shapes that reference the architecture and nature of Nantucket. Together, the 10 cards mimic a 10-step value scale that depicts the culture-to-nature continuity from Main Street Nantucket to Nantucket's "Enchanted Forest."
Oikanomic contribution to regeneration: 50% of proceeds go to the artist, 25% is dedicated to Nantucket ocean acidification research, restoration, and communication efforts, and 25% is allocated to new Oika projects and people.
Oika Whole-Brain Leadership Workshops explore innovative ways of employing art, science, and other realms of received wisdom as necessary allies in our current moment. Through Oika concepts grounded in deep natural science and direct, ecologist Rich Blundell and artist Rita Leduc lead groups in an investigation into what a whole mind-body-world alliance can look like. Together, the group examines how this trains a new kind of leadership - one that is accessible to all and imperative for a beautiful future.
Workshops (and their pricing) are structured to fit any context; past workshops have taken place at universities, conferences, science centers, meetings, and museums. Reach out to begin a conversation.
Oikanomic contribution to regeneration: 50% of proceeds go to the artist, 25% is dedicated to research, restoration, and/or communication efforts at a site relevant to the workshop location, and 25% is allocated to new Oika projects and people.
Extending Ecology is an an ongoing, collaborative Oika Project between Rich Blundell (ecologist), Rita Leduc (artist), and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (ecosystem). Since 2021, the human team has embarked upon a shared experience of sustained, relational engagement with scientific knowledge and creative being with the forest (New Hampshire, USA). By taking co-creative risks with the intelligence they find there, nature's deep, healing, ecological dynamics transfer from the forest, through the human team members and into culture. The visual art, writing, conversation, and community that continues to follow is guided by the wisdom of nature and offered into culture as a response and remedy for our current, crisis-laden times.
Since the project is ongoing, so is the artwork. To view the current collection, visit here. To inquire about purchasing specific pieces, please reach out to Rita Leduc here.
Extending Ecology Artwork is part of the Extending Ecology Oika Project.
Oikanomic contribution to regeneration: 50% of proceeds go to the artist, 25% is dedicated to Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest research and communication efforts, and 25% is allocated to new Oika projects and people.
