The Experiment:

What happens when a woman who has built her life around story meets a land that refuses narrative? Can reality, lived without interpretation or rescue, teach what philosophy only promised?

The Creative Parameters:

Each post corresponds to a moment in the story arc and pairs lived experience with a factual element unique to Montana.

Meet Montana | A Story About Love, As It Turns Out

Meet Montana: What's Your Problem, C Falls Water?

Meet Montana: What's Your Problem, C Falls Water?

In other words: hard water is, at its molecular core, built to grip. Bind. Attach. It's not a behavior. It's a nature. It has collapsed into form so concrete that...

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Meet Montana: What's Your Problem, C Falls Water?

In other words: hard water is, at its molecular core, built to grip. Bind. Attach. It's not a behavior. It's a nature. It has collapsed into form so concrete that...

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Meet Montana: Becoming Dishwashable In a World At War With Itself

Meet Montana: Becoming Dishwashable In a World ...

I did not become someone who suddenly didn't need a dishwasher by fighting the version of me that did. That's not how this worked. I did not get anywhere by...

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Meet Montana: Becoming Dishwashable In a World ...

I did not become someone who suddenly didn't need a dishwasher by fighting the version of me that did. That's not how this worked. I did not get anywhere by...

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Meet Montana: When Love Is Hungry, It Hides Itself In Rescue

Meet Montana: When Love Is Hungry, It Hides Its...

Five days after we trapped the Columbia Falls cats, one of them died. I had named her Garnett. As if a name could hold a little dignity around suffering. As...

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Meet Montana: When Love Is Hungry, It Hides Its...

Five days after we trapped the Columbia Falls cats, one of them died. I had named her Garnett. As if a name could hold a little dignity around suffering. As...

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Meet Montana: River's Edge Park

Meet Montana: River's Edge Park

River's Edge exists as a quiet form of access in a place where land is treated with reverence. It does not attempt to manufacture experience, nor does it promise transformation....

Meet Montana: River's Edge Park

River's Edge exists as a quiet form of access in a place where land is treated with reverence. It does not attempt to manufacture experience, nor does it promise transformation....

Meet Montana: Two Bear Air Rescue

Meet Montana: Two Bear Air Rescue

Part 2 of Story 2 Two Bear Air exists as a quiet form of support in a place where risk is part of the landscape. It does not attempt to...

Meet Montana: Two Bear Air Rescue

Part 2 of Story 2 Two Bear Air exists as a quiet form of support in a place where risk is part of the landscape. It does not attempt to...

Meet Montana:  Story Won’t Save You

Meet Montana: Story Won’t Save You

Part 1 of Story 2 Because story - despite all of its beautiful features to capture moments and provide a vessel within which they live forever -  creates distance between...

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Meet Montana: Story Won’t Save You

Part 1 of Story 2 Because story - despite all of its beautiful features to capture moments and provide a vessel within which they live forever -  creates distance between...

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