Consenting Objects

Trélex Residency 4 November 2019

Sense: a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

Sense: a faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

In the Trélex garden I ponder Absence and Presence; the space where a tree once stood and the its sawdust.

Can it remember?

Can it remember?

The transformed chair walks the Energy Line which passes through the woodland. I’m pondering marking its presence on the other side.

Walking the Energy Line

Walking the Energy Line

It falls over from time to time; it has tenuous tenons.

It falls over from time to time; it has tenuous tenons.

Meanwhile the roof of the Woodland Shrine quietly turns from red to gold; sheltering kami.

Meanwhile the roof of the Woodland Shrine quietly turns from red to gold; sheltering kami.