May Sticks
I was walking in the woods with my dog listening to ‘echos’ by Pink Floyd, I was immersed and felt small, lost and vulnerable.
Next was Enrico Morricone’s sort of orchestral sound tracks to a series of iconic western films. This music empowered me and I started feeling like these were my woods and I remembered reading the minutes of a meeting I was in a week or so ago. These stated the artist (me) was going to use the natural history relating to the area as the content for the artworks! The area in this case was a large property development even further north than the M25.
So in my last post I was saying that the woods had not really influenced my work to a great extent……well that was rubbish, wer’nt it. I’m building gardens in schools with wildlife trails and habitats, I’m emailing the Biodiversity and Countryside Officer and reading ecoligical plans for 2009-2019. I’m involved in conversations about indiginous species of plants and animals on a couple of projects and still trying to find the time to design those two large totem poles celebrating specific species to Thornden Wood! And this has nothing to do with working in the woods for a year then?
Sometimes I cant see the wood for the trees.
