NaturePlay Areas are set-up All Weekend:
Examples from yestersummers:
Intuitive Carving with bark and stone with pocket knives
Marking and Imprinting on paper and fabric.
*BRING Clothing to Use
with Log Ends, Pine Cones and latex block carvings
with rusted objects
with Pounded Flowers -- natural pigments
Pocket Art: cards, wands, intuitive tools
The Sustainable Exquisite Corpse (Resurrection Art?)
group painting projects with old housepaint
Practicing
Surrealism: fumage, grattage, collage,
frottage
Fairy Houses: Politics of The Small: modelling mythic thinking
Anonymous Art: Stone Stacking, pop-ups, gifting, Land Art
Soft Land Art: chalks, fabrics, knitting, weaving on the Land
Pulpy Material Sculpting
Sound-Making NO PLANS It always happens somehow
What You Can Talk and Learn About:
Making as Contemplation Contemplative? The Tree
Makers as Wisdom Carriers: David Sobel's Work
Makers as Community Builders: Nuevo Durango
Makers as Magicians first, then, technicians
Makers as Change Agents Tricksters?
Makers In the Marketplace: What? Why? To Whom?
Makers In the Healing World one place
The importance of "Loose Parts": an area where there are, well, just
loose parts. No plans or instructions. Miraculously, kids (and others) seem to
find things to do with all these parts. It's a political exercise in trusting,
power-sharing, empowerment...
More Themes/Questions/Ideas:
sophisticated primitivity Animal Faith negative capability
monkey-mind makers inherent vice "Duff" David's term
"the Eye of the Woods" Birds/Birdsongs Altars!
contemporary Foraging Haiku-the Gathering undertheme
"Be Kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle"
Time as not Linear, but Circular or Ceremonial
Laurie talks about Plant-Thinking and Machine Thinking
Robert Bly: this is "the time of savagery" calls for "Vertical Thinking"
Gettting more Masculinity into Mother Earth:
Woodlanders are Larpers (Live Action Role Playing):
trying out new identities... Duncan Naylor
Place for Grazing, Glazing, Lazing, Hazing
Sensitive Chaos -- Alt Event Planning model
Allows for planning not to get in the way of the organic nature of the event.
Allows for people and activitiesto emerge from the prepared souil of the event.
David Hughes called it "a retreat"
... we get treated and treated again?
