An ongoing collaboration with a family farm, TERRA FIRME explores the lands around the village of Agrobom in the Trás-os-Montes region of northern Portugal. Since 2018 I have gone to Agrobom to see the landscapes, fruits, flowers, trees, and the animals that live out in the country’s rural periphery. I have spent time in the company of curious pigs, playful mountain dogs, watchful rams, bashful sheep and their timid little lambs. I have wandered the land in every season, growing evermore perceptive of the changes in colors, smells, and rhythms that each cycle brings: the winter rain and the glow of green moss that follows; the procession of wildflowers blooming in turn throughout the spring; the devastating beauty of a fire scorching the earth, its smoke rising and mixing with the clouds. Over time, my connection with the ecosystem deepened, eventually leading me to formally join the project as the farm’s designer, photographer, business developer, strategist, salesman, olive oil guide, and occasional shopkeeper, among numerous other roles that go unnamed in small businesses like this. My aim is the same for both my practical work and this artistic body of work: to bring attention back to the land, to connect what we are doing on the farm to a visual reminder of the beauty, power, and potential of rural projects.