Kentucky-based artist Dianna Settles joins us for a conversation about her work. We discuss what inspires the remarkable specificity in her paintings — as well as the people she doesn’t want collecting them, the mistakes first-time farmers make, the type of book one may wish not to read while nursing, and the making of a life worth living.

Terms and topics mentioned:
- Dianna’s own paintings, drawings and prints
- MARCH Gallery, New York City
- “Stacking functions” in permaculture (heads up: link is to a prepper site)
- Police violence at the 2023 South River Music Festival, Atlanta
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- A sampler of some Viet Cong paintings
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta
- Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
- Napoléon Gaillard père (shoemaker/barricadist of the Paris Commune)
- Ill Will
- Ossabaw indigo
- Lexington Still Life Club
- Phil Neel, Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory
- Antoine Volodine
- John Berger, Pig Earth
- Joshua Clover, The Totality for Kids and Madonna anno domini
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness
- Greer Kirshenbaum, The Nurture Revolution
- Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letters
- Rosie Stockton, Fuel
- Jasper Bernes, Starsdown and The Future of Revolution

- James Still, River of Earth
- May 2026 “Lifehouses, Resilience Hubs and Dual Power” gathering at Woodbine, NYC