I am reading a wonderful new book called 'Becoming Animal' by David Abram who is one of the founding members of an organisation called The Alliance for Wild Ethics. http://www.wildethics.org/home.html
I am very excited about this organisation as they have wonderful people involved and I find my thinking replicated in their attitude. This is where the internet comes into its own for me as I would have never found these people without it.
green flashes through the wind
as parrots turn
showing secrets underwing.
River sounds wake me
and soothe.
the earth rises through
my typing fingers
to tell its story.
My work explores landscape and colonisation in a contemporary context and investigates ideas of place. Through a rather cursory investigation into swarm intelligence I discovered bees, which throughout history have been seen as an example of the kind of utopian existence that has eluded us as a species. The Bee Project is a long term project that looks at these issues through a variety of art practices including exhibition, performance, and 'social sculpture' as defined by Joseph Beuys.
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