Canebrake Studio is owned by Hugh Hollowell, who writes and builds a lot of things.
This is where he sells them.
So why the name Canebrake?
Canebrakes are wetland ecosystems in the Southeast US that are made up mostly of river cane, a sort of native bamboo. They are dense and nearly impenetrable, and have historically been the place where the dispossessed have hidden to recuperate and survive. In the aftermath of the Trail of Tears, indigenous Americans hid there; during slavery, escaped enslaved people hid there. Canebrakes seem scary to the privileged, but are places of safety and renewal to the people and ecosystems they seek to harm. Canebrakes are sources of a completely renewable building material we as a society in the US have virtually ignored. Instead, our response to canebrakes is to destroy them.
Safety to the dispossessed. Scary to the powerful. Extremely useful, but largely ignored and even targeted for destruction.
Seems reasonable.
