earth day today, 22nd April......

universityofthetrees.org

Friday 22nd March, University of the Trees hosted an Earth Forum at UCA.
We need to develop 'new organs of perception' if we are to hear 'the great suffering of nature' and begin to work like artists in the world'. 
University of the Trees quotes Joseph Beuys, and encourages participants through Social Sculptural events to rethink not only what we see but how we see.
We considered the Earth and how we perceived it, and how we could influence it.

At the end of the afternoon, the Equinox tree received a gift of earth from participants.

It's arrived......

First day of Spring today, number 1981 arrived safely at 8.30 am on the back of a pick up truck. A new tree, a new life, a living sculpture, a symbol of continuous transformation of life, society and ecology.

By engaging with staff and students, the planting event became a social sculpture, and one which will endure in time as a stimulus.

Spring Equinox Event, 20th March 2013.....latest

Spring is in the air, the temperature is rising, birds are singing, and number 1981 is primed and ready to join UCA.

Just a small matter of getting sign off for my site-specific proposal now.

Sculpting with a living mutable form to reconnect man with nature, the wishing tree of life, coming soon to a campus near you.

All welcome to help plant my baby, 20th March, 9am-11am, main front lawn.

Treelife....onetree.....degree show......

Working now towards degree show, one tree in, one tree out, connecting the Site and Non-Site. Hauling wood around the campus, getting into position......Raw wood as material, nature's essential life force with its own eternal language.

Lichens

Tree surgeons arrived on UCA campus last week to cut out deadwood from mature Horsechestnut trees in the car park. A key opportunity for everyone who loves working with wood to scavenge.......

getting to the heart of the matter

i chip away

layer by layer 

revealing depths and details 

no one has seen before

layers built up over time

giving strength and protection

i need to get to the heart of the matter

wood that i could

i eat away at it

it eats away at me

i feel exposed, vulnerable

but I know inner truth is there 

wanting to peek out