Ceiba Creatures

Today I worked on the thesis annotated bibliography.  I feel inspired to weave in the ceiba tree explorations of the past year and a half.  Rather than use the Island as a metaphor for relational resourced undefended conversation with self and other, look to the tree.  Defiantly more research is needed to figure out how this fits into the thesis.  Perhaps how I have been actually in conversation with the tree is a clue. Lots to think about and read. Here is an excerpt from a post I made on Canvas in the Glissant course. It summarizes how I made the ceiba creatures above. These are the creatures that are put inside the larger puppet body in Metanoia.

• On a different note I continue to engage with the local Ceiba trees.  I visit them weekly and last weekend collected two pounds of fallen flowers.  I boiled them with the intention of making paper.  Strangely they turned into a gelatinous black-reddish mass, too slimy to pull into sheets of paper.  Instead I dumped a good amount onto a piece of plexiglass to see if that would form a sheet.  In addition I made human and animal forms from the sticks and branch fiber, dipping them into the slimy pulp that remained in my bucket.  What I have created looks like burnt bodies.