Pushing Rocks
I woke from a dream today
Slowly but surely, a culture of impunity is being dismantled as though we might all be waking from a bad dream. This despite every effort on the part of the dominant culture of capitalism and extraction to continue to run rampant.
Department of Random Insight
I have always thought transparency is a good thing and that it's impossible to be truly generous without openness. The opposite of generosity is withholding. withholding in personal relationships is cruel sport. In relationship to the rest of nature, it is just profoundly short-sighted, even, stupid. This is our present challenge: environmentalists are being outgunned and outspent and outpowered by people who have no problem being transparent.
Links to published material on The Blued Trees Symphony
Links to audio podcasts and interviews about Aviva Rahmani’s project The Blued Trees Symphony.
On Defiance, Uncertainty, and Empathy
Shortly after my last post on this site, I began chemotherapy for breast cancer. I am now halfway through that grueling treatment protocol. Meanwhile, Blued Trees was awarded a 2016 Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in the category of Architecture/ Environmental Structures/ Design, and a wonderful new article was published in the Village Voice on Blued Trees , by Audrea Lim
New Press on "Blued Trees Symphony"
There is some amazing new press on the Blued Trees Symphony:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/earth-day-ecoart-confront_b_9721354.html