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The preliminary images of this project communicate the inherent tension between paper and water. They provide an intersection of examination; an investigation of threat. To take these images I had to bring books to the water’s edge, I had to hold them while standing in water and then trust that steel frames would suspend them above the water line. My fear of the books getting wet, of being harmed, speaks to our changing relationship to earth’s oceans and waterways and our knowledge of them, past and present. Should the way we have come to know them be re-examined? The way we learn about them? The way we educate about them?  The written histories of our ecological knowledge and the language of taxonomy is steeped in human hierarchy. In the face of sea level rise and climate change how can we rethink these taxonomies? How can we reframe our human connection with the non-human? How can we speak and share knowledge in a frequency that all creatures can hear? Current Codices examines colonial taxonomies and challenges the historical belief that humans are in the center of the ecological circle and instead should work to be an integral, equitable part of a multi-species ring without a center.