Who Cares?

Art2C

The art institution Wanås in southern Sweden is worth a visit - the setting is awesome and the art projects are ambitious.

This was not catalogued as a piece of art but to me it was :-)

Hanne Tierney, Love in the Afternoon, 1996

Filippa Barkman, Still south I went and west and south again, 2010

Robert Wilson, A House for Edwin Denby, 2000

Malin Holmberg, I will stop loving you, 2010

.... and then there was these spooky voices shouting or whispering "Mama!" or "Papa!" coming unexpectedly from somewhere in the woods. The piece was I am thinking about Myself, 2003 by Marianne Lindberg de Geer.

And much more.

Accretion

I am not sure whether art is capable of changing the world or not, but it certainly can change our conception of the world - I took this photo because I saw a naturalized Eva Hesse installation, while my husband and kids who made it, saw homemade sticks meant for making camp fire breads.

Airy Thoughts

It's time to sow all the airy thoughts I get, when I am high flying:

...and

then I am off to Sweden to check out other kinds of Allotment Plots.

Forever wild

a dream

a promise

a statement

an illusion

an invention

a lie

a truth

a tale

forever wild

Evolution documented!

Which evidence is there for the existence of Evolution? Well, I saw it with my own eyes in Soho, New York! Even though I could hardly believe, what I saw: frieze dried rats and mice, real human skulls and skeletons, fossils and myriads of bugs - some of them encapsulated in candies (uhmmmm!). All for sale in a shop full of costumers in all shapes, colours and ages.

So YES - evolution is fact (all though I cannot tell for sure it wasn't created (by a creative creationist?) ;-)).

As I said: There are NO WORDS

Theodore Roosevelt's (NO) WORDS about Nature at

American Museum of Natural History.

I have NO WORDS to add.

Tree Talk

It ain’t easy to talk about trees, let alone talking about nature!

But it IS easy to go to extremes and come forward as either a neo-romantic tree hugger or as a dry stick focusing solely on calculating timber value and CO2 emissions .

According to Aksel Haaning the Western approach to nature is rooted in Christianity, which traditionally has separated man and God from nature. Being religious is a matter between man and God - NOT including nature.

And – contrary to what you might think – the mechanical/scientific world view, which arose in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the Christian world view are not opposites, but they go hand in hand when it comes to fulfilling a shared mission: to drain nature of its spirit!

According to Aksel Haaning this attitude has prohibited modern Western man in developing a spiritual relationship to nature, which again means that we don’t have an up-to-date language when speaking about nature. Our vocabulary and our way of talking about nature is out-dated, antiquated and lacking vigour.

Recently, I encountered this problem when fumbling for words in an attempt to explain to our local newspaper WHY I think it is necessary to spare a little wood called Byskoven ("The City Forest"). I don’t speak as a tree hugger or as a rational tree counter – I am trying to speak another language:

TREE TALK!