" I am fully committed to the idea that human exsisitence should be rooted in the earth." - Carl Jung.
A few months from now COP 26 will be hosted in Glasgow.UK. International Governments gathering in order to discuss emergencey climate change policies - Particularly focusing their debates and plans around the necessary reductions of fossil fuel pollutants currently impacting earths ecosystems.
Hope- capacity for change is still possible - even though around the globe unprecedented experiences of climate extremes reveal inevitable harsh realities upon ecosystems due to human activity- ecosystems human survival depends upon.
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The ongoing climate induced realities, impacting tundra, land,flora, fauna, ice- caps, sea life habitats....A new paradigm shift is apparent. Either new values and new ways of sustainable living will emerge without further detriment or threats of further extinctions to other life forms. As well as our own. Imagining new modes of being where humans could live more harmoniously as a species - in ways that benefit holistically.
Maybe through gaining deeper ecological awareness, choosing to reconnect, in seeing ourselves as part of a whole would perhaps play a key and significant part to thriving as well as surviving...
Many strategic, ecologically informed authors inspire new frameworks of being. Authors such as David Korten who shares ways to explore living in an ecological civilisation - His book, Change the Story Change The Future, looks at ways to engage, all our current civilisations tools in the process of change, be they experts in the techno, spiritual, sciences, economics, ecology... or Jeremy Lents latest book, The Web Of Meaning, which incorporates understanding how we have come to be, the consequential effects and our interdependence of all things and how the dynamics of those interconnections play their parts too. He explores the complexity of systems...rather than the reductionist veiw of the emphasised mechanical...I recently read Carl Jungs book, Earth Has A Soul (ref 1below) ....we have somehow lost our way and interconnection....he states and looks at the interconnection of indegenous peoples .."I am fully committed to the idea that human exsistence should be rooted in the earth."(ref pg 194)....Which seem like words of wisdom concerning where we presently stand.
Currently I'm in the process of collaborating with two other creatives. We intend to display the works in a Library situ ....Each of us bringing work and ideas that connect with the current climate and which will coincide with the COP 26 Events...we hope to share our perspectives on the beauty of nature reconnection ...alternative ethical ways of productions with cloth and natural dyes. And images referencing current ecological concerns. Presently we are intitally working on ways to present and articulate the works into a public domain. with reference to COP26. Works below are a finished series Altered perceptions...going a little further I intergrated human imagery into parts of the exsisiting works. I hope in due time to share our collaborations, images and ideas on the blog... : )
ref 1 ...Earth has a Soul Carl Jung, Edited essays by Meridith Sabini , North Atlantic Books Berkeley California .
Jeremy Lent The Web of Meaning, philosophy and the Environmnet
David Korten, Change the Story Change The Future.
