Blossom

 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 will write what I mean simply.

 

We have trees as objects that have many values - in art, in science, in averting the end of the world by fire, in capitol, in experience, as symbols and as landscape. 

We have disciplines but really in the context of our project these are value structures.

We have a project where we try and bring together different value structures and  try and think they are the same, built from common points of reference.  But they do not really fit.  Our work is axiological as we need to develop a new value system that allows us to hold onto hope.  This is why plenty coupes is so important. The job at hand is not to assimilate value structures it is to develop new ideas of value a new axiology of trees by stealth and by working in close proximity.