TREES

I am reading your writing and it is taking me ages and I want to go and walk in the woods. While I was in Dorset I thought about the tree planting we did in December and I went and visited my tree. It wasn't very large and I thought about the timescapes of trees.  John pointed out this tree that had once been a pollard and now looked strange - it had been wrapped in a hedge a hundred years ago but had not stayed in one place. Trees are growing and changing and their timescapes are different from ours.   

The blossom is coming out in the cemetery. I photograph it every year  and every year it surprises me; how lovely it is and how much there is of it.  We had a good meeting about the Black Poplar today I didn't know much about them but was pleased they didn't look like normal poplars which are my least favorite tree. I'm always playing catch up at these meetings as I'm never very sure where it fits in to the rest of the project but the team were there and it felt familiar and I felt useful.  It reminded me of some of my other work brokering arts science partnerships and how the disciplines can effectively work together.  I then went on to try and do some writing and this got muddled up with the meeting as i didn't take a break to switch over.   My writing is about multi modality so I did a bit of reading and watched Gunther again on youtube   I know its not always useful to roll everything together but I did wonder about the potential to generate muti-modal...

    I went to a talk last night about global warming and the coming end of the world by flood.  It was a Social Sculpture that focused around conversations about a conceptual ark that contained things but also hopes and dreams.  The work was well presented and had clearly engaged a group of people in conversation, they had taken more ownership over the reality of a dying planet and their potential to enact change.  I wanted to tell them about Plenty Coups and the idea that imagining a future from this present moment may not be helpful and we need collective radical hope that equips us to deal with the unknown which will surely become present itself in the next couple of millennia.   I will try and answer my own question.   If this project is successful what will it do ? At this point it would be tempting to go to the case for support and list our projected outputs and outcome yet this is not what I was asking.  "If these trees survive they wi...