'displace the human from the centre of meaning making.’
(morton)
is there a way to record the unending energy of nature, enabling the earth to leave its trace and explore a mode of art making that is utterly organic?
down to earth began as a project for an mfa at falmouth university that gives agency to more than human forms, deferring to the supreme indifference of nature as it powers on regardless of human intervention.
a canvas is planted five feet down in the earth and exhumed/harvested/raised after 40 days.
perhaps 'all things are not things at all but processes' (toffler).
two ritual assemblies bookend the process:
the planting and the exhumation.
the audience make a wish as they participate in planting the canvas;
the second assembly reveals the earthwork.
