Vida Pavesich teaches philosophy and makes digital collages. She has been profoundly affected by teaching philosophy–and more recently by teaching environmental ethics for a few years at California State University East Bay and now at the University of San Francisco. She relished diving into the literature, not knowing how much it would disturb her, or how it would affect her understanding of the human place in the world. She also did not know how it would feed her art practice. She studied philosophy as a graduate student, getting her PhD from the University of California, San Diego after a hiatus of a few years. She has gone back and forth between being absorbed by ideas, making art, and taking photographs—always knowing that these two preoccupations could somehow inform each other. Her most recent academic paper was about the Anthropocene, entitled “Working on the Myth of the Anthropocene,” and her recent digital collages attempt to express in visual form her emotional response to the information and ideas she encountered while writing and teaching. Words could not always capture her intense oscillation between feelings of doom and hope.