audio of plant walk, featuring arden
watering indoor plants
Conversations of / with / in the living world
curb_side-walk chalk notations
I performed a series of public interventions into the curb side / side walk using chalk to create situational notations. These notations interiorized external forces like shadows, cracks from tree roots and puddles. Through notation I am framing the temporal nature of the curb side / side walk. These interventions were situational analysis for my research and gestures of gentle activism in my local community, encouraging an attentiveness to the ever changing nature of our urban interior.
Dimensions
Cracks from roots
Curb sides / side walks are composed of tarmac, cement and /or stone. Moss, grass, weeds, fungi inhabit this ecosystem.
Allan Kaprow discusses the benefits of conscious attention in a creative practitioners process and the potential it has to “alter what is attended”.
(Kaprow (1993, 236) I resonated with Kaprow’s interest in attentiveness, and the opportunity to develop a depth of interpretation to my surroundings.
Can I engage my local community in an attentiveness through public interventions?
Puddles
Tree shadows
Pole shadows
(between 10.30 and 5.15)
