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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Hard to believe what a simple animation can achieve, but Annie’s youtube movie, thestoryofstuff.com, manages to bring a complex subject on the ecological and social effect of western style economics to millions on the net. Her simple drawings and personal story, formatted into a small web-ready animation, shows how an idea, simply packaged and [...]
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A site listing ideas and links to inspiring art and ecology projects!
I thought my first post should be an image – here is one that I have kept for many years.
It is a drawing from a man selling artworks from his family home in India. I suppose my first trip away from New Zealand, I [...]
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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
