Am just back from an inspiring weekend course based on Joanna Macy's 'Work that reconnects' – she is a Buddhist, deep ecologist /activist/ philosopher with an expertise in 'self-organising systems'. There was a strong sense of the power of unity and interconnectedness in relation to our attitude to the earth and also to each other
I realised on the walk home through the autumn sun that this piece, once it makes its transition into the public domain on Oct 7th, will be a self-organising system. Poetically speaking, if Crafting Space is a living being, then; the steel mesh structure is the skeleton, the ribbons are its skin, the texts are its DNA and the public is its blood, its life force.
More on self-organising systems later! The final round of ribbon writing (tools, on the fifth tier of the roof) is the work to be done. Willow and her assistant have been sewing together double wall sections and roof sections to walls with wire, to minimise the work there is to do on the set-up weekend. By the end of wednesday, when we do our final session at Willows, the structure will be complete and poised for a second life.
www.joannamacy.net/html/deep.htm
