Saturday 5 September 2009

Our Social Climate is Changing

The earth is changing; the issues are global, national, local and individual.

Change happens when there is desire to do so. I believe the desire to change comes from experience which empowers the individual to take action. Forthcoming articles will look at our willingness to change.

Whilst acknowledging the concerns at hand, articles will be written with the attitude of positivity and possibility. They will challenge expectations of what ‘nature’ is and where it can be found.

My aim with this series of work is to bring awareness to environmental issues and climate change by deepening personal experience of the land itself. Thus bringing an understanding of a changing earth that is inclusive and immediate, rather than distant and hard to grasp.

‘It was creative thinking that saw the first wheel within the stone’

Art is an important tool in the effort to change the environment. Creative thinking can find solutions, seek answers and make something from nothing. Creativity is a link to our human nature that can adapt and survive in any changing environment. This programme will help individuals acknowledge their own creative ability, even if they believe they don’t have one, to create and change the world around them for the better.

Sacred Experience of the World


Forthcoming Article:
Sacred Experience of the Land-
welcome to the world

How well do we really know our environment? Do we still carry expectations from our early life that shape our experiences of the natural world and how far do these assumptions and expectations blind us from what is actually there? Do we know the environment as well as we think?

In a Changing Environment, Creativity is an Important Survival Tool
It was creativity that saw the first wheel within the stone. How do scientists imagine the world they discover? Scientific discovery works step by step, understanding what is known, stretching it further, imagining what else it could be, then testing the quality of that dream through experiment to find out if the dream is right - will it show itself to be true.? The world complies or not, then the imagined form changes shape accordingly, does it work now. A call and response between human's and universe.

It is imagination that makes the texts books come alive to children in school.