western port, bass strait
I have spent time with artists of water considering ways of knowing through art for
new imaginings in sustainable education in these precarious times of the
Anthropocene.
Humannature
what kind of “dirty, messy” ways am i becoming
humannatured through artmaking, blogging &
bodyplacetime?
Sarah Crinall, PhD candidate, Sustainability Symposium, UWS
June 2014
what happens between places and
bodies?
literal dirty messiness
‘So it has been great to witness … the promiscuous feminist researcher, with her dirty theories
and messy habits, her diverse and perverse commitments and her productive–seductive
vulnerabilities.’ (Maggie MacLure 2013, p.625)
Reading the terms ‘dirty’ and ‘messy’ here, draws me immediately to the earth.
Earth on fingers, under nails, between toes. I am gardening, digging old
tomatoes from the earth to plant broccoli for the winter
To water
To watch
To eat
Toward becoming
A Humanbroccoli hybrid!”
(Bodyplaceblogpost extract, 24th April 2014)
From body
Outward to place
Inward to body
Sustenance
Through theory
In disrupted time.
complexities of
nurturing
our daughter edith
emergent, unpredictable possibilities spacetimemattering
all messied and dirtied in!
!
the water
bodyplaceblogpost 2nd June 2014
Anthi edie mikala and I dove into water
blue streaks down their faces
i see
they look like
the water
bodies shining in water and sun
lazing by green grassed dune
soft cream sand piled
and strung along coast for kilometres
red
red
orange
red rock.
crashing white foamed waves
become foamier as we stay
the wind
Still so low.
The sun streaky and warm.
I realise as we ascend the stairs
I revelled in each move edith made
artistic and other
against anthis reflection of her own letting go.
What happens when I photograph our painting closeup?
theres a consciousness
focus
attention to detail/s
awareness
slowing
sl
ow
in
g down.
each frame is a breath.
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