trying to get out of your own work

I am trying to back out of shot , about two thirds of the way through this Video,

 that my Son made for Me,  with his phone,  of My Sacred Grove,  or My Nematon.

Mine in the sense that I am the only person who has worked on making the space .

I had wanted to record the seasons new growth, untended winter into spring .

This is the place I did not know when I began .

Mountainside morning Sun

River down East

Stone up North

I alone have dug this well.

I carved the channels and ditches with my hands, shovel and pry- bar.

I raised up the Earth and stacked the Stone.

I heaped up mud and clay, sod and loam.

I planted Sweet Flag outside of the inner circle.

I have assembled and constructed  the center.

This is the place I did not know when I began.

This is  My Son's camera work ,

Beginning at the sacred groves entrance facing the setting sun.

center from below looking up

reorientation,

Drawing from a base broader than experience and imagination of individuals or groups,

Questionable foundations  may be the common theme in animal and plant response and movement.

Truth is deeper than our knowledge of it,

 Balance response takes place beneath the controlling awareness of the individual.

All Things can be disoriented by adjusting their perception of where they are in relation to everything else.

approximation proclamation

reproduction  ~ production

The Flower Moon has come and gone,
appeals to every sense of every life all around.
Attention getting expressions of a magnetic World Making Love .

Nature is not self contented and at peace.
Moving
opening up   spreading out   restless   blooming
not contented with containment or care of control.

 Natural Communities are not a concept or awareness of identities of participants,

A system of  interactive exchanges with a shared temporal experience with a relation to proximity .
Neighborhoods, Territories, Environments,

The many Beings, The many Spirits that share precious Time connected.
Spirits of the Season
Time for Living
Changing states of matter
Solid ~ Liquid ~ Gas
Energy - absorbed ~ passed through ~ reflected.

Breath of  the crashing wave
Dancing light on the water
Sound of the gentle rain
Permeable Place that is .
Form that we find ourselves in.

repeated resonant reverence, cycles and circles

the respiration of anaerobes.
A continued contribution following in the common established  patterns connects and creates.
The Atmosphere a process of Earthly respiration developed when Life had to Hide from the Sun.
So it is with what is exchanged with whom and how.
Habits of inhabitants on Habitat habitually living and dying, aspiring and desiring

Center of attention

attention to Center

Centered attention
Climate of reverence

The Waters of Life ! ! !
above and below
through and around
within  and between

Stuff of all beings
moving and remaining
throughout the ages

ONE WORLD
ONE  PLANET
ONE EARTH

sensitive sacrifice symmetry

Ritual is not an everything goes affair,at it's center an appreciation for something contained within.

more than a progression of binary couplings

The ability to express appreciation of exchange in the principles of Life/ Death energy transference and the lines of connections and attachments that together sustain and support one another by being.

making landfall - taking shape

I am far left of the team - 1979  

Fertility is the potential
emerging from and contained within


The news clipping found in my attic when looking for something else.
The  crease in middle suggestive and significant in symbol and season.
The vertical axis of centerfold separating the team of creators, left background from observers,with backs turned cropped in the far right.
It was the Summer of My coming of age when the photograph was taken
The image that you see is the light  and shadow of the form of the bend in the fiber of the paper- unfolded but holding on to the memory of place and position.
Newsprint no longer content with a flat two dimensional form,bulging into three dimensions.

Material Being