All that glitters…
is not necessarily recyclable.
I’m moving further and further down the route of sustainable action. My arts life is and has to be inextricably linked to ‘balance’, spiritual, ecological, intellectual and in other ways.
Spending the last few weeks thinking about what the ‘working day’ should really be about for ME, has not been an easy task. It’s often easier to think about what you DON’T want in your working life, but rarely tackling it head on, than what you do want.
I look at society and I see we are needing to return to ‘the source’. When the monetary system finally breaks down – as I’m sure it will – what will we have left? The arts? Each other?
Based on this when I started to consider developing an outdoor space around one of our extra care facilities for aged persons, I thought – there’s two ways of doing this… just doing the job – the easy job, or doing the right job.
These people need to be surrounded by beauty, to bring the outdoors in and vice versa and there is no need for them to not be involved in a development that is at the cutting edge of the arts. So it was with these proviso’s in mind that I’ve started my quest to find people, organisations, examples etc that show me the best of the best in eco-arts.
I’ve uncovered some interesting examples and am hoping you might forward me some too. Hopefully it’ll glitter and be recyclable.
Check these out for starters: http://www.earthlink.net
http://www.powwow-ecoarts.org.uk
http://www.sensorytrust.org.uk/
