COLLECTIVE IMAGINING >
Stuart Crewes // posthuman
LOST KNOWLEDGE
Micha Colombo
We’ve created the wrong kind of wilderness:
slashed and hacked for growth,
all corners and no hearth,
we are a circle squared too far.
Time to step back, let the saplings grow.
Our dreams are children –
they will move beyond us in bizarre directions.
They know where to go.
We must squeeze the angry clay and throw it away,
release our gripping fingers one by one –
you cannot build on pain.
Feel the sadness well within you as it washes off
our blotted past like summer rain.
Then imagine the tingle of lost knowledge
reviving your soft lips like balm.
Bring out the witches.
Those whose bones creak with nature’s wisdom,
plant-fingered beast-breasted wonders,
cackles cracking the earth to mine deep truth.
Circle of sisters unafraid of fire,
soft girls unfurled into grinning elders.
In darkness, even love seems like danger.
Bring out the witches.
They know where the magic lies
since we tried to silence it.
Secret maps of stretched skin and ancient blood
that we can no longer read.
Do we dare to trust them?
To drink the thick soup that spits from their crucible?
As it heats our wet throats, we wonder –
is it poison or the taste of home?
I will stitch my ideas with a fumbling hand.
Is that alright?
I will spin new yarn with chewed lip,
even though it will be fat and lumpy at first.
I will paint by numbers if I have to.
I will blunder my way in,
before we rub ourselves out,
like a sketch gone wrong.
Tuong Nguyen >
“I’m committed to creating works that are environmentally friendly by challenging myself with arts for environment themes and how I use materials. In this Feb, I worked with a series of collages, trying to bring more natural environment and species’ images/concepts/issues into my work, to make the natural image closer to human’s life and raise awareness/thought for environmental issues. All works are recycled and repurposed from old magazines/newspapers // @cattuong
It’s not too many ticks 
It’s too few birds n frogs 
It’s not too many slugs 
Same
It’s not more Corvids 
It’s less of every other bird 
It’s not too many Beavers 
It’s too few Trees 
It’s too many Deer 
It’s too few Trees
We need more Trees
We need Moor Trees
by NICK VINEY
SHANNON WELLES:
“My ecological philosophy is an entanglement of art and ecology. It is a making that tends relationships. My approach is an assemblage of influences—John Berger, Cecilia Vicuña, Tim Ingold—and a lifetime of making and observing. Berger wrote of artmaking as a form of receptivity and collaboration. He saw a way of looking as an implied relationship with the world. Vicuña speaks of the act of making as a manifestation of our awareness. Ingold writes of imagination as both attention and correspondence. In this aesthetic ecological entanglement, I am not seeking art that is about ecology, but, rather, an act of making that is infused with ecological relationships and process. I’m looking for different ways of attending.”
