Harrietta RedRoot and Secret Horses of Moxie

The Society for Nebulous Knowledge is pleased to introduce its seventh discovery! Harrietta RedRoot is an awe-inspiring, historical account of natural medicine and animal communication.

“... a case of art imitating life-as-it-happens." -Delia Martinez, guest curator

Order your copy of the exhibition catalogue here! 

“The underlying themes in Harrietta RedRoot and the Secret Horses of Moxie—that of healing and tapping into the wisdom of the natural worldare vitally important considerations for today.  With sumptuous photographs and a captivating story, Tres' exhibition catalogue is the kind of conceptual, part-performance inventive approach that earned her Society for Nebulous Knowledge a place in Antoinette LaFarge's Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax, and Provocation (2021) as an overarching project of great merit." 

-Linda Tesner ,Curator of Contemporary Art & Writer

"Through imaginative exploration and honouring the intelligence of the more-than-human world, Mariana Tres brings forth a much needed exposé of the healing that emerges from trusting ourselves as we journey through illness. Harrietta's story of courage builds on our perennially changing biomedical ways of knowing and the human imagination’s necessary spark for rehumanizing both health and healthcare."

-Dr. Adam Hoverman, DO, MPH, CCFP, Family Medicine & Public Health Physician, Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative

The Society for Nebulous Knowledge is an ongoing project engaging a unique collection of historical photographs, artifacts and chronicles. Some of the treasures in the collection include Anabella Gaposchk, a little known nineteenth century photographer who illustrated the cosmos from her kitchen where serendipitous sprinkles of baking soda morphed into star clusters and nebulae, Viviana Spokoininich, the Russian composer who wrote the first musical to be performed on the Moon, and Herschel McShougle, whose optimistic decamillennial clock is now being built by the Long Now Foundation in the hills of Texas. Begun in 1898, the Society for Nebulous Knowledge seeks to unburden science of its grave purpose and offer the viewer a rare glimpse into the poetic confusion and mysterious play of the universe.