Art + Nature

Foehn wind in Marc's Garden, Paul Klee

The Foehn is a type of warm leeward wind often accompanied by sudden changes in temperature, pressure and relative humidity. Our bodies are acutely attuned to these climatic changes - the Foehn is often associated with headaches and sleep disturbance. When weather manifests within us like this as a kind of malevolence, we are directly sensing the fuzzy boundaries of the internal, external and stratospheric.
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ref.
1. Foehn wind in Marc's Garden, Paul Klee
2. https://la.curbed.com/2016/4/6/11350250/santa-ana-wind-weather-health
3. Weather: The Ultimate Guide to the Elements, Harper Collins publishers, 1996
4. http://meteolafleche.com

Pea Shoots

[Pea shoots just need a damp material to sit on, a fairly moderate temperature, and some decent sunlight]

I was drawn to the murky world of OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology) a little while back. Particularly the ‘ecological’ slant taken by Timothy Morton in books such as The Ecological Thought and Dark Ecology. I was attracted because here was an aesthetic dimension to considering environment that accounted for the strangeness and melancholy we often feel in the face of it.

Practical knowledge of the systems that sustain us on Earth must surely make for the foundation of our ecological philosophies/politics. And yet we can’t forget the strangeness that is being a conscious living thing on this planet.

It gets pretty interesting in that third place between the pragmatic ecological and the oblique aesthetic dimensions of life.
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⌂ - The Greenhouse

This is the greenhouse I started out with. It could be some sort of metaphor for this blog.

Hello World

Derek Jarman's Garden

from Derek Jarman's Garden*

*copyright disclaimer - limited low-res scans for educational use only

Jean Tinguely Sketches

 
Jean Tinguely Sketches

 


Robert Ryman paintings