on converting a spruce plantation into a forest & other projects that inspire, by Cathy Fitzgerald
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‘The aim of the drawing is to move the discussion of sustainability from a very general and abstract opinion, to more direct prisms of interaction between people. In that, the experiment is in watching the move from problem calling to solutions, creations, or expressions. The main element is the “flower of [...]
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Try to imagine a major Hollywood blockbuster in which a U.S. Army pilot hijacks a Marine Corps Blackhawk helicopter to shoot down fellow U.S. choppers in order to protect indigenous people fighting to save their rain forest from U.S. oil interests. Don’t think that could happen? Think again. It just did, says Harold Linde, Environmentalist and [...]
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I’m heading off to Copenhagen today – I am excited but also have mixed feelings as I see Copenhagen as only a beginning of serious debate and awareness about Climate Change. I was reading the editorial in the Guardian this morning, who sums it up better than I and the disapointing distraction that has arisen [...]
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Hi all,
Just found out that my film that I made for Biodiversity week 2008 Burning Bright, has been selected for the Carlow 2009 Eigse Film programme. Yay!!! I know some of you watched this film as it was selected earlier this year for the Green Party’s youtube film festival and asked me how it go [...]
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I’ve re-cycled my e-card from last year (how green is that – hope you like it. I made it just before I started blogging last year, so now it has a home. Its the view from my studio office – no tree was harmed in the production of this card!
I’ve just finished all [...]
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I’m delighted to write that a new local forest directory has been created. It follows on from the 2006 ‘local project’ film & exhibition, a project where I documented an innovative 15 year old community foresty project in south Leitrim. The film and exhibtion were supported by the Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon and Crann.
Some of the [...]
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Another item from the Irish Green Gathering. I met US born Rita Higgins and her Irish partner Paul Quirke, who have a sustainable landscape design business in Cork – Anu Green Designs. I was captivated by their ‘vertical garden’ systems which you can plant up or buy ready grown. I had known about greenroof gardens [...]
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Meant to have these images posted but summer holidays got in the way but now that I have broadband, my blogging will be more regular I hope.
Lots of creativity evident at the 2nd Irish Green Gathering held in Killane, Co. Wexford; creativity was evident in the woods, in the films selected and in the excellent [...]
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I’m heading to Woodbrook to check out the Gathering, my sister Joan has been a volunteer and crowds beginning to build as we speak, click on image for more info
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http://www.justforests.org
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My art & ecology notebook documents a SLOW ART project. It's an ongoing diary in images, short films; conversations between myself, foresters, our local community & beyond, detailing an example of how we are turning our small monoculture spruce plantation into an ecologically & economically, permanent real FOREST.
I am also interested in using film to convey personal stories of small backyard environmental actions in response to global ecological concerns. I am developing a personal, poetic narrative film-making style, that while documentary in certain aspects, allows a larger range of ideas and emotions to be presented, in contrast to standard nature documentaries.
My project 'the Holly Wood Diaries'has allowed me to create two experimental film sketches, 'burning bright' (08) and 'once i counted birds' (09) and builds on previous stories with beginner foresters and their young trees/new woodlands in the more traditionally styled documentary film 'the local project revisited', 2006
I also write about other eco-art works that inspire me & which may be inspire others.
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