Extinction Witness creates and curates memorials for the dismembered to resolve the untold and unrecognized losses of individuals and whole cultures.
"The present mass extinction is driven by how we relate to ourselves and one another."
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extinction witness
origin & translation
The
witness depicted here is an ancient petroglyph found near Peterborough, Ontario
Canada. While there is ongoing discourse regarding the origins of the
collection of 900 petroglyphs among which this image is found, the First
Nations people of Ontario today recognize the carvings as Kinomagewapkong or
"the rocks that teach." Here, the sun and human are merged into one
image that depicts a leader who incarnates the power of the sun deity.
Translated for
This frenzied little character grasping neck speaks to "crazy wisdom" - radical (root) - compassion in action that must be the hallmark of our time. Extinction Witness places this character as the light shining through this darkest hour, which calls forth the Sun.
This frenzied little character grasping neck speaks to "crazy wisdom" - radical (root) - compassion in action that must be the hallmark of our time. Extinction Witness places this character as the light shining through this darkest hour, which calls forth the Sun.
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Great project! Allay extinction sounds like mitigate climate change. Tuf enuf 2 do the job?
ReplyDeleteThanks, James! I would love for someone to convince me otherwise, yet feel allay is a reasonable ask as this point. we are in the midst of this mass extinction event...this is not some future event, this is the present moment. we have lost many already and are losing more each day. also, extinction and climate change are not events we can stop, so much as change. these changes occur...our choice is how we respond to these changes and acknowledge our influence on these changes that we may consider and create systems that lend toward thriving communities...that work for all...to the best of our ability. allay it is for me. you?
DeleteThe scale of ambition for addressing things like climate and extinction is the single most important defining choice we can make. Whatever we choose it will be self-fulfilling. If we believe we can't stop global mass extinction then we shouldn't be too surprised when that's the continuing outcome. If we set out to stop things that must be stopped then we will attract people and ideas to make it possible!
ReplyDeletesmiling with this, James. death is not a part of life we can or should wish to stop and extinction is a mass dying. we must see this as an opportunity to thrive with the birthing, dying, birthing process...we are birthing now and our aim/vision will determine what we birth...death will always be an integral part of the living/thriving process though. I'm setting my aim on you and yours (leverage points), which I find full of possibility!
Delete? Mass extinction is "an opportunity to thrive" ?
ReplyDeletean opportunity to have peace as never known before at least. as nearing death personally often inspires a drive to heal wounds of challenged relationships, this mass death has the power to inspire humanity to heal and find peace in quick time, as never thought possible before. thinking out of the box and far beyond assumed limits...
DeleteSounds like "this mass death [extinction of species that we were created(evolved with) thru interactive, dependent relationships with] is very ungrateful to the life forms participating in our creation-- ungratitude to the point of saying "thanks, but we don't need you know; we can create our own independent mechanistic, artificial, unEarthly ecosystems and artificially engineered and blueprinted future(artificial development and replication) replacing 80 million years of social mammal and primate Earthly creation of life. Problem is machines will never be alive. Life is organic; not mechanistic or via inanimate physics and math(like the 0s and 1s combinations in computers)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a sacrifice of Earth-life(including her humanity) to the addictive powers of scientific and artistic creations for the intention-purpose of power-domination by artificial psudo-humans
(homo alienus) over all Earthly creations(like humanity) of species life forms that get in the way of this new "outside the boxism" -- accelerating destructivity, a creativity outside the Earth-life box. A small minority of us prefer to stay in the circles of Earth-life that created us. Further, sounds like a love for non-life and the unhuman alienism invasive all about and within us.
Love started with social mammals and fruited the first human species 2-4 million years ago. Machines have it not and mechanistic minds experience it very little--but with much of career-love.
This "quick time" sounds like the imaginary, instant gratification of a desperate science-technologicalism facing accelerating, unsolvable scurges it has either produced or enabled.
We should realize that civilization is new-- 70-80% of our GG Grandparents were illiterate and close to the land(farms or villages). It has lately accelerated. But real, natural Earth-life
evolves and sustains very slowly. Hence civilization is mostly
non-life, an artificial synthesis nonsustainable.
L.S. Heatherly, Heatherly's Blog, (lsheatherly.blogspot.com)