Continuation of the residency experience and reflections

Posted on 31st July 2017 by Sabina Sallis

Urban flicking vision: the diverse community of warmth and reciprocity, all engaged, caring and active citizens. Imagine that view of abundance!

In the grass-roots, the thriving habitat in time and space dynamically concerned with life forces itself, interconnected and interdependent phenomena, and the society of reverence.

In the garden, in the landscape, with other like minded creatures of the world, the vision emerges.

We can move, walk and work together, we can organise organisms and ecosystems! We observe, we interact, we listen, we respond, and grow many different plants among each other!

By the edge of the meadow, looking at the variety of flowers and horizons of possibilities. The communion with nature in the human scape but in the far distance different stories integrating diversity into the vortex of life.

Can we activate a more just and wondrous world through our interaction with the living world?

Embodying the story of inter-being and the kind of world we want to bring forth together. And there is ever so much to learn and to share, to plant and to wonder!

We need community gatherings based on reciprocity and sharing in those spaces; where everything gardens, intentional and temporary communities, spontaneous collaborations, working with it, with this evolving force, with the dynamics of organic unfolding! And the feeling of deep connection with life!

And then this ‘arcane sort of knowledge becomes common sense,

the thrown seeds are on its way for a better future,

enveloping it with the vegetal fabric of the universe,

the space, the place, the encounter, the sense of belonging

All to produce the right kind of feelings, the feeling that the world is beautiful and amazing,

the colourful meadow, visual richness that feels eyes, inspiring abundance of shapes, scents, sounds and ambience of the possible future!

The landscape is inviting immersive experience; the garden that opens its nature for continuous continuity, for the community!

Alfred North Whitehead  says that “The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.”

How can we through intervention in landscape cultivate the right kind of knowledges?

Where everything germinates and grows, lives are knitted together, permanent evolution!

Building alternatives, alternative sets of knowledges and practices, propagating the power and drive to implement change to chose the life of the gardens!

“There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.” Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism

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