Listening to Nature listening to us.
Listening to nature- including ourselves and every other past or present living lifeform. An informal Journal of my Creative Gastronomy Residency at Bendigo TAFE Food and Fibre Centre of Excellence.
Have you ever noticed insect 'pests' or friends scurrying away and hiding whenever you approach them? Or maybe you've heard the abrupt cessation of frog song as soon as you walk within a metre or so of a frog pond? Nature is alway listening to us from the tiniest little cell hairs on single celled organisms to the largest mammal and everything in between. Across communities of lifeforms, communications or some forms of exchanges, take place constantly, from chemical reactions and symbiotic relations to more familiar sensory information such as sight, sound, vibrations, and scent, in wavelengths within or beyond the capabilities of human perception. The community of life, of which we are part of, includes extensive networks of interconnected cells, animals including people, plants, fungi, place and atmosphere or weather and quite possibly other features or connections we dont know or understand.
I am interested in exploring, learning from and appreciating this world of activity through observation or listening with standard human and augmented senses such as microscopes and microphones as well as newer sensors able to detect for instance, changes in plant cell activity, atmospheric weather data and more. I intend to create imaginative interpretations to share and exchange this experience with others in artistic installation, recordings or performances. This journal will serve as some documentation of this journey.
Have you ever noticed insect 'pests' or friends scurrying away and hiding whenever you approach them? Or maybe you've heard the abrupt cessation of frog song as soon as you walk within a metre or so of a frog pond? Nature is alway listening to us from the tiniest little cell hairs on single celled organisms to the largest mammal and everything in between. Across communities of lifeforms, communications or some forms of exchanges, take place constantly, from chemical reactions and symbiotic relations to more familiar sensory information such as sight, sound, vibrations, and scent, in wavelengths within or beyond the capabilities of human perception. The community of life, of which we are part of, includes extensive networks of interconnected cells, animals including people, plants, fungi, place and atmosphere or weather and quite possibly other features or connections we dont know or understand.
I am interested in exploring, learning from and appreciating this world of activity through observation or listening with standard human and augmented senses such as microscopes and microphones as well as newer sensors able to detect for instance, changes in plant cell activity, atmospheric weather data and more. I intend to create imaginative interpretations to share and exchange this experience with others in artistic installation, recordings or performances. This journal will serve as some documentation of this journey.
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