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Had my early morning walk and pottered around my land art-doodles on the pavement [side-walk]. My one friend, I met him at genealogy, referred to this pottering around as land art-doodles and I like it. It encapsulates the gist of it. I cannot go into the wild like Strijdom Van Der Merwe or Andrew Goldsworthy and create their incredible ephemeral art installations. And yet, I want to do something; I think of myself to be an activist although on a very small scale. I am connected to the earth. While doing that I am also reminded of Pope Francis’ encyclical letter LAUDATO SI wherein he encourages us to get involved with life.
Yes, we get all these whatsapp messages encouraging people to start to
do something, for instance, grow your own food, write a poem, sketch something,
sculpt something else.
And I am reminded of Jasper Johns who famously said: Create something
and then you do something else with it, and then you do something else with
that and then you do … and so it goes on. You can have a look at his NUMBERS,
FLAGS & TARGETS.
Later today I will do my usual rounds in my garden – I love making
plants. I have re-named my nursery: this is my maternity ward. This is the
place where plants die and where they are brim-full of life. The place is
pregnant with life, the life forces I experience there is just too wonderful. Oh
the sacredness of it all – thank you Karen Armstrong.
