Celebrate the beauty and mystery of the visible and invisible world-Kandinsky.
Humankind we are but one thread -all things hold together all things connect - Chief Seattle .
There will be no shift in ethics without a shift in perception.Anon
Continuing to organise Sketchbook works in preparation for the upcoming Halesworth Gallery display. My works focusing on the consequential impact that pollutants have on biodiversity. Below are some of the plans I hope to incorporate into the event.
The humble knapweed plant to we humans may seem a rather ignoble specimen - But to many pollinators such wild plants are essential - particularly for bee and butterfly species exsistance. Presently I'm growing knapweed from last year's harvested seeds - as part of an ongoing range of wildflowers now growing in the garden- a 'microcosom' space for biodiversity to thrive rather than be on the brink to survive. The drop in wildflower meadows since the 1970s has rendered many wild species on the endangered Red list. Herbicides being one of the main causes in the depletion of wild flowers - pollinators depend on .
The intention - to have an installation of these humble potted plants as part of the art display ....through which to encourage the viewer to participate- it's an incremental gesture - by taking a plant and replanting - in doing so we each become positive participators in the process toward ongoing rewilding.
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| Preparations -Knapweed plants potted& growing ! |
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| Bee landing on first knapweed Flower this week. : ) |
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| In the garden flourishing Knapweed budding 2023 |
Harvested -Last year's knapweed seedlings
The potential to support many insect species
Particularly pollinators.
Yet a cautional reminder......
"Never use life forms as a means. Remain conscious of their intrinsic value and dignity even when using them as resources. " Arne Naess. - Deep Ecology editor George Seasons pg260.
Today working on linocut images - Garden humble bee .....
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| Redution Linocut fun messy business! |
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| Needing to keep on reworking images ... |
Hoping to eventually incorporate lino cut Bee image along side Rumi quote ...
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. " Rumi
Ubiquitous margins....
.....lanes,streamsides, wooded fence rows...thresholds of wildness...enact within the bounds of human domesticity itself, a human courtesy toward the wild that is one of the best safeguards of designated tracts of true wilderness. This is the landscape of harmony. Wendell Berry. (Ref 1below)
Ref 1- Incarceration of wildness , essay, Thomas Birch, pg 351, Deep Ecology for the 21st C, edited George Sessions. Shambala Publications. C.1995 George Sessions.
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