TREES

 The blossom has gone now and small fruits are forming on the trees.  A large ash tree in the cemetery is dead due to ash die back.  There is something about trees and timescale which is interested.  Dogs are the same they run a bit faster than us and you need to accept that they will hopefully not outlive you.   I walked around the cemetery with Clare and thought about the roots of the trees connecting all the bodies, what was above and what was below.  I am going to make a soundscape and record the noise of the trees.  We may also listen to them with stethoscopes at the playground and try to work out what they are saying.  It was nice to be doing a festival of the mind project it made me think about practice and about building a space to hold something - perhaps an event.  I suppose the job of the trees project is axiological.  Guattari uses this word a lot in chaosmosis which is not an easy book but is sort of relevant here. ...

 I am in a conversation about a public dialogue about trees for next year run by the UK Treescapes programme. Plant a tree for 73 was all the thing as well as entering the Common Market in 1973. These are the redwoods in San Francisco. What I said is we need to do a takeover like is happening on Radio 2 next week on sustainability. I also talked about Nabil Hamdi and Small Change and also the Simple Stories work I said we should do a projection against the House of Commons.  It made me realise we have thought quite deeply about public dialogues but perhaps in a different way.