Floating Ideas

This morning our critique group met and it was great to see everyone and look at the work they brought to share. It has been three months since our last gathering and everyone seemed to have blossomed into a deeper expression. Very cool.

This afternoon I headed over to the library to edit some work for my presentation in class tomorrow. The teacher also asked us to come prepared with three film ideas to discuss. Here are some things I am thinking about.

1.  Film the burnt giant redwood in Big Basin -something about the hollow burnt core - how does it manage to survive?  Before doing research I can do an embodied drawing of the tree to gain insight through cellular memory. Combo of live action and drawing.

2.  Select a subject and come up with parameters and constraints.  Approach the project as process.   Treat this as communication with something in the natural world, to open to a surprise, to be informed by the natural world beyond my current understanding.

3.  Cebia  make a folk tale based on my experience of communicating with the tree for two years.

4.  Plants as ghosts?  Leading roll is the moss growing on the oak and red woods.

5.  Sunset, “lights out”

List the things in human life that are setting, coming to a close and contrast that with the complex beauty of the fading light in nature.  Rather than measure the loss of light explore the incredible depth of Dark.

6. Remembering Utopia

“Utopia is what is missing to us in the world” Edward Glissant

If it is missing there is a memory of once having.  What does the forest know about Utopia? The practice of remembering together through cellular communication.