About

Silvarerum takes its name from silva rerum, Latin for "a forest of things." It was the name for a kind of household book kept in Poland and Lithuania from the 16th to the 18th century. Families kept one book for everything: chronicles, letters, recipes, poems, accounts, remedies and stray thoughts, all side by side, often written over generations.

This site is that kind of book. It holds essays, things I make in the workshop, and tools I build with AI, without pretending they belong in separate lives.

I'm Chase Holtan. Write to me at hello@silvarerum.world.