about

Radicle Weft is a mish-mash of two metaphors, both of which express an idea about ideas:

Radicle: a botanical term for the embryonic root that first breaks through a seed’s wall. It stands for an idea at the moment of its emergence — incomplete, uncertain, and searching for a place to belong.

Weft: a word from weaving. The weft is the thread that travels back and forth, and over and under the crosswise threads (the warp) to form the fabric. In similar fashion, language can pull together diverse and disparate ideas into something whole — or at least something capable of holding.

Put together, the words mean nothing in particular, although they sound a lot like Radical Left, an unintentional rhyme that nevertheless shows how meaning can emerge imperfectly, from near-resemblances or a misheard phrase.

More concretely, Radicle Weft explores such topics as urban design, poetry, infrastructure, climate change, the internet, books, storytelling, zoning, maps, myths and a bunch of other stuff.