The Feral Rose … | Feral | Wayfinding | Becoming |

Arts experimentation with… Wayfinding | Becoming | Decolonising | Going Feral | Placemaking | Indigeny | Myths & Stories | Wild | Undomesticated | Knowing & Knowledges | Ethics | Meaning-Making | Naturecultures | Playthinking | Emerging | Earthing | Worlding | Futures | Nomads | ‘World-making’ | Response -ability | Commons | Ceremony | Re/enchanting | Re/imagining | Utopias | Ourstories | Urban & Rural | Environments | The ways before and the ways to come | Kin | Cycles | Patterns |

““Aak ngamparam yimanang wunan … ‘being like our place’. I think this is a good way to start if you want to begin to discern the patterns of creation and rejoin our custodial species.””
— Tyson Yunkaporta

The Rose is a predominantly domesticated species that has been cultivated for 5000 years.

It is an ornamental flower, originally extracted from it’s wilderness and situated in our public or private parks and gardens where it is kept tidy, neat and captive.

I too, a Rose, am captive, extracted, cultivated and domesticated, but through this project I encounter The Feral Rose.

 
““In nature nothing exists alone.””
— Rachel Carson
 

FERAL … is to be uncultivated, undomesticated and uncolonised. To perhaps know oneself as nature

WAYFINDING … is the knowing, knowledge or presence to find our way through and across landscapes both material, metaphorical and metaphysical. Wayfinding re/turns us to our common journeys, ourstories, our ways of being that materialise through place and peoples, and across time and space.

BECOMING … is the awareness of being impermanent and experiencing the fluidity of changes, shifts and existing in a constant state of re/forming, transforming or in/forming

 
“ “Can we imagine reconstructing our lives around a commoning of our relations with others, including animals, waters, plants, and mountains… This is the horizon that the discourse and the politics of the commons opens for us today, not the promise of an impossible return to the past but the possibility of recovering the power of collectively deciding our fate on this earth. This is what I call re-enchanting the world.””
— Silvia Federici
 
Making Worlds “Making knowledge is not simply about making facts but about making worlds… in the sense of materiality engaging as part of the world in giving it specific material form.” Karen Barad #makingworlds #karenbarad #maki
Storytelling Matters “It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptio
Utopias “Utopia is a method rather than a plan, a process rather than a goal.” Ruth Levitas #utopia #utopias #ruthlevitas #method #process #waysofbeing #waysofimagining #futures
Love the World Enough “"Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new an
Wounds & Grieving “Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it—grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to ma
Education and Love “Education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, somethin
Places and Ancestors “For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.” Robin Will Kimmerer #
Time and Worlds “Time itself shall shortly cease, the sun look dim with age and nature sink in years, but thy soul shall still remain unhurt amidst the war of elements the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.” Mary Myams’ dedic
Water and Becoming “They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” Hermann Hesse #water #waterdroplets #nature #life #waterislife?
Consciousness and Becoming “Our true nature is far more ancient and encompassing than the separate self defined by habit and society. We are as intrinsic to the living world as the rivers and trees, woven of the same intricate flows of matter
Crafting and Making “...it can be argued that the essence of making lies in creating (life). There is a distinct ontological dimension to making, as it implies the emergence of the new, of something that is whole, from disparate, often disjunc
Collecting and Carrying “If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and t
 

The project is entangled with many of my broader works in facilitation, teaching, music, art and studies … even though this part of the work has come to a close, the journey continues and will emerge in creative projects that I aim to share over the coming years.

It is vital to the ecological, socio-cultural and ethical ‘global becoming’ that we practice plurality with ‘opening’ for transformation and possible new worlds of present and future through local and global. We know not yet what we are capable of materialising through collaboration and cooperation for planetary justice.