Messmates stands as an idea of multispecies interconnectivity that makes every organism necessary to one another in their surrounding environs. Messmates are companions – in Latin “cum panis” – who share bread and rely on each other for survival. In the spirit of caring for our messmates, this exhibition is interested in empowering climate justice through an ethical, political, communal and spiritual approach to human relationships with the earth, and all forms of organic life. It seeks to qualify climate crises through story and ceremony, land-based and transgenerational knowledge and embodied and observational understandings of climate and its effects on natural systems.