Status Updates From Arboretum

Not sure what to make of this all just yet. It’s art in a form I’ve not seen done before. There’s a topic per page with connections between opposites sometimes like a sort of conceptual feedback loop at times. It’s language and semantics diagrammed in a way that simultaneously makes some sense but defies normal logic. Sensible cognitive nonsense. Intriguing and requires some effort to appreciate. I like it!

“We can’t have a sense of beauty if we don’t also believe deep down in fairies.”

“What if we intentionally court unproductive and even wasteful interludes?.. We might hope to increase the likelihood of accidents, fostering and encouraging unexpected intuitions and new insights. What if we build chaos into our lives, knowing it might increase the odds of a creative breakthrough?”

“Freud claimed the subconscious would ‘speak’ through slips of the tongue, snippets of strangely appropriate song lyrics and off-color remarks. But was it not his own dirty mind that always inferred the worst of us? May we not equally reach divine heights of inspiration and inspired metaphor just as often?”

“You arrive at the immaterial place whether you proceed forwards or if you go backwards. It doesn’t matter which way you go; you always arrive AT THE SAME PLACE. The ultimate highest ground a life form can arrive at and the place before life are the same. The circle is complete - the Gods and movie stars circle back and shake hands with stones, amoeba and bacteria.”

Themes and annual coverage aims:
* Nature
* Environment
* Role models
* Life lessons
* Reference book