on converting a spruce plantation into a forest & other projects that inspire, by Cathy Fitzgerald
Aren’t things all a bit late this year?
Still Spring at any time is pretty marvellous – I finally got a new camera, something similar in size to a camera I borrowed some years ago. So last Easter Saturday, straight out of the box, I went outside and had a little Wordsworth minute. Hope you like it.
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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.
rsa art & ecology blog Nils L. Elliot: Mediating Nature
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Cathy, saw all ur videos. The chirping of birds, the row sounds of nature used in the back ground plus the richness of green in the frames are so soothing. Ur vision and mission is inspiring and divine. We have our farm land back in india, where I would love to go back and settle sometime in future to enjoy the company of nature once again. My childhood was so beautiful climbing on jack fruit trees or nut mug trees. The monsoons that wet the land…paddy fields…pine apple fields…tall coconout trees…cry of frogs…the water snakes in the pond, the wide range of birds…I was so close to nature then…
Hey Arun,
thanks so much. Having a lot of fun with camera – was up at dawn capturing dawn chorus – the birds are not quiet at the moment. Hope you get back to nature sooner rather than later
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