on converting a spruce plantation into a forest & other projects that inspire, by Cathy Fitzgerald
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A Hard Rains Gonna Fall -’It was a song of desperation. What could we do? Could we control the men who were on the verge of wiping us out. The words came fast – very fast. It was a song of terror. Line after line, trying to capture the feeling of nothingness.’ Bob Dylan. (Image [...]
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Hi all,
Just an update on our chipping party that we planned for Easter last weekend. Well, the weather forecast was bad but in fact it was a beautiful spring weekend. Many thanks to friends, Eileen and Steph, even turned up early on Good Friday before we were to start chipping on Sat to help drag [...]
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our new clearing, originally uploaded by CathyArt.
We will plant in with pioneer species that suit our soil, alder and birch or maybe let nature do the work for us.
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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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Dr Paul O’Brien, Lecturers at National College of Art, Dublin, has reviewed the current climate of art, ecology and politics in the latest issue of CIRCA, Ireland’s visual culture magazine.
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Less than 24h after posting my film ‘the local project’ on a broadleaf re-afforestation, community project in Leitrim, in that I got an invitation by two London based curators to show the film at an Irish Film festival!!!
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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
