Ubud Essays

A reoccurring idea in Fuentes’ work is niche construction, which is “the building, modifying, and altering of ecological niches and the concomitant pressures that play back on organisms” (Fuentes). The term niche has an extensive background in the sciences, especially biology, used to describe the particular role of an organism in the ecosystem. As defined by Fuentes, it is “the dynamic N-dimensional space that an organism lives in and creates interactively with multiple other species” (Fuentes)

It was the night of the full moon in Manly. I hadn’t seen her in the flesh since we met on that night in Ubud, it felt good to be reunited again. We spilt to each other everything we’ve missed since then. We wrote manifestations and intentions on paper, then walked to the beach. We ran to a couple men to borrow a lighter. I lit up my paper and watched it burn