What’s a furca?

 
We get our name from springtails, or primitive insects of the order Collembola, that spontaneously jump away when threatened using an abdominal appendage called a furca, or furcula.  Springtails are minute insects in leaf litter, on pond surfaces, and within rotting fungi and wood. Usually unnoticed, springtails are important species in nature’s recycling and redistribution- called decomposition.

Our philosophy:

Our artists and writers use mixed-media, incorporating recycled materials, in hand-crafted poetry and visual artistic “books”.  We put “books” in quotes to note their unique nature, much like the mode of a springtail’s escape mechanism.