LOGAN SCOTT
LOGAN SCOTT
I am a writer, comics maker and researcher, working with and exploring narratives that speak to our relationship to the more-than-human world. Most recently I have been researching and developing a new hybrid narrative form
I call ecosystemic writing.
Below are some examples of ecosystemic writing from my first full-length work of graphic fiction, The Dark Lit Up. This is a novel that explores the impact of the climate crisis on my hometown in South Africa and which speaks to our search for reconnection with the more than human world across time and space.
"A world of uncountable connections.
In time ... In memory
all of it ... and all at once"
"The natural world doesn't work like that.
It's more complicated.
More wonderful.
It refuses."
"With the time and the money
They'd have chosen to strike,
to beat their drums and march.
That is not for these boys."
"Everything is connected
to everything else."
RESEARCH FOCUS
To date my research focus has been on the potential for graphic narratives, comics and image-text hybrid forms, to speak to the scale and complexity of the more-than-human world and the trauma of our disconnection from the natural world. This has seen me explore the role of abstraction in visual narratives to speak to the more-than-human world's non-linear, non-narrative forms as well as exploring the role of photography in the creation and curation of memory, particularly in the context of mass biodiversity loss.
As my research, in collaboration with my creative work, has shown, visual narrative have the power to engage with societal challenges in transformative ways.
CONFERENCES AND PAPERS
“Why Do We Study Comics?” A Round-Table Discussion on Teaching, Researching, and Learning from Comics
Oxford Comics Network Conference, 21-23 June 2023
Learning from Nature: Abstract Comics and their Application
Oxford Comics Network Conference, 21-23 June 2023
Ecosystemic Writing: Resisting Narrative Convention to Rewild the Novel
Oxford Comics Network Conference, 21-23 June 2023