On passing on someone elses writings
Working in Venice at the moment, assisting Cordeiro+Healy in their contribution to the Biennale. In the occasional spare time you go around looking for ancient trees and secret gardens. In the mean time this article was suggested by Lucas: Becoming native to this large place All around the countryside, growers of various nationalities have been […]
On setting up Bio-art
“No please, don’t refer to us as environmental artists”, Caretto-Spagna said in one of the many exchanges we had in the past 6 weeks. You worked with them in a mentorship program in Cambiano, Italy, getting ready a major new work for a curated group show for the Strozzina, Firenze, Green Platform. When you were […]
on keeping track of it all
Sitting at Charles De Gaulle Airport, Paris. The flight to Torino, your final destination is 5 hours away. Plenty of time to kill. You’re always nervous when you transfer at this airport, since when you were here once with plenty of time to waist, and still managed to loose your flight. You had a window […]
You’re back, or rather.. you’re going
When was last posting? two months ago? when mayhem suggested further readings into a French surrealist ethnographer, Roger Caillois? This blog collapsed soon after that, or rather, the back entrance to this blog collapsed.. Happened before, several times actually, and it always imply never ending days of forum’s readings to work out how to fix […]
on pdfs or, on describing nature using unorthodox points of refernce
You’ve been sent this article from the New York Times of 1910. It’s a peculiar offer, yet, you liked the story of an amateur ornithologist of the turn of the last century, who by observation alone, presented the Thayer Theory. After 25 years of research grounded on “description rather then observation” of Crows, gulls, warbles […]
on listening to dialogues for social sustainability in public spaces
You attended a fantastic conference last week, hosted by the Transforming Cultures Research Centre, University of Technology of Sydney. Three exciting days of extremely interesting topics being delivered around issues of social sustainability in the landscape, delving in re-defining how different cultures inhabit urban landscapes around the world. One of the presenters, Setha Low, a […]
on street plantings and where the neighbourhood is
On the way to Chippendale you stopped, the artificial lake in Victoria Park gave reason for a picture: Ibises roosting on a willow. These majestic native birds are one of the winners of nowadays urban wildlife, as the wikipedia entry: Historically rare in urban areas, the Australian White Ibis has immigrated to urban areas of […]
On the big long white cloud
Pic by Senor Lebowski You left Christchurch, New Zealand. The flight gave you the chance to see the landscape from a fantastic advantage point, you had a window seat on a clear day. You where impressed by the width of the river beds, as if the washing downstream on sediment is happening at an amazing […]
on finding quotes
photo taken by Bmdavll You found a cafe’ where you get access to a modest library, and came across ‘The Natural History of Canterbury’ published by the Canterbury branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand and edited by A.W.Reed in 1969.. No, not Canterbury the English town, but the New Zealand region where Christchurch, […]
while the hurricanes sweep the earth
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