on converting a spruce plantation into a forest & other projects that inspire, by Cathy Fitzgerald
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(Pro Silva Ireland field- day this coming Saturday 25th April 09, see end of post for details)
I was just about to start a post on our disastrous chipping weekend when I heard a report on RTE Radio 1 Farmweek programme this morning (Sat 18 Apr, 09) about forestry this morning. All ears, I typed in [...]
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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
