IMAGE: WAYSIDE CHICHORY (Chichorium intybus) An old-world friend, now thoroughly naturalised, from coast to coast, in North America. I walk this world, this wayside, everywhere I go, each and every day. So I live in the world of this Chichory. Not in this world of HYDROCARBON MAN speeding by in his shiny car in the photograph. So I suffer the same insults of noise, or pollution as my plant and animal friends, and, of course, the near impossibility of these two spatially side-by-side conflicting worlds ever communicating. Even if there not a Climate / Extinction Crisis accelerating right before our eyes, I would still do this. For me it is the ethical way of ahimsa, or nonviolence, of first, doing no harm. For me, it is the pilgrim's way.
So one might say that my music and poetry and photography emerge from this space, this difference. Out doing climate plant photography, it seems to me natural, for example, music with microtones and geometric rhythms (instead of just CONSTANT squares and triangles in 2s, 3s, or 4s, or even 5s, CONSTANTLY CHANGING spirals...) that distribute sounds in TIME just like petals or seeds are distributed in SPACE! This allows for each sound to be clearly heard within cycles of simple to complex, just as fractal geometries in plant geometries allow each needle, each leaf, each seed to receive light.
TEXTS USED are:
(0) OF FLOWERS & POEMS
(1) TO KNOW THE FLOWERS
(2) SONNETS TO ORPHEUS [part I]
Rainer Maria RILKE (tr. Cliff CREGO)
