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| three drafts |
Remember
Lovejoy News? It was a project I did a few years ago that was like a poet's phenology. I'd wander off into the neighborhood with the intention to observe and report on what was happening nature-wise. I tried to include myself and other humans in the ecology. I wanted to erase boundaries between human habitat and nature, between my inner world and outer world, between science and art. I see science as the mythology of the present. I love science, but I think humanity looses something vital when measurements and calculations become our only form of understanding. There is an increasing participation of non-scientists in scientific endeavors like naturalism these days, it is very exciting and I think it would be deeply enriching if people recorded their observations in their own inspired and creative voice.
I want to pickup Lovejoy News again—I barely scratched the surface of my intentions—but I thought it would be fun to first
choose my 10 favorite sketches from the original project and make them
into illustrations. I just finished the first one from Jackson-Frazier
Wetlands. I am really happy with it. The text is the most challenging
part. Of course it is
available in print too.
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| finished! |
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