We had been farming for fifteen years when I started drawing our daily lives in this place. During those years, as I worked on the land, the land also worked on me. Landings explores the conflicts and symbioses between art and farming, and celebrates the beauty found along the way. 

“Generational memory seems to have fed a modern assumption that manual labor is for the wretched, and farm life is something to be escaped. For all those of us who have returned to it, or elected not to leave at all, there is so much more to the story. It’s a kind of mission work to explain that land itself holds wisdom, and grace comes from reading it every day. The world needs books like Landings to record ‘the joy, delight, and awe of our creaturely lives on earth.'”

-Barbara Kingsolver, from the introduction

At the end of World War II, many Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United States from Europe in search of a new beginning. Most settled in major metropolitan areas, usually in predominantly Jewish communities. However, some settled in smaller cities and rural areas, including in Kentucky, where they encountered an entirely different set of circumstances. This Is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak presents the accounts of nine of these survivors.