earth /əːθ/

verb gerund or present participle: earthing

1. connect (an electrical device) with the ground

2. drive (a fox) to its underground lair (of a fox) run to its underground lair

3. cover the root and lower stem of a plant with heaped-up earth

Earthing February was always intended to illustrate the restrictions of that short, dark month. A month of isolation, starved of light, depression a bed fellow, nature furloughed. We didn't realise what was to come. We didn't know outside was to be rationed. Nor that the environment would begin a process of renaissance once humans were forced into their lairs.

Earthing February features the collaboration of Scottish Italian writer Esa Aldegheri.

The grieflands

The grieflands are shadow-filled.

You are alone here, held

apart, held down

by the undertow

of loss.

Remembered freedom, touch and joy:

that's what the shadows are, traces

of life in the before.

You carry them,

they carry you.

Unbidden, they reach

reach

for your throat.

There is only one way out of here: through

the long stretch

of sadness.

Grief

is blinding.

You turn away, stunned, twisting,

grasping for threads to follow

through the dark, to fashion

into wings

wings to lift you

from the grieflands: anything,

a sound

a song

a word.

The undertow is strong.

Grief

is burning

your mind

your mouth

your voice.

The undertow is strong.

Grief

is binding

you

in a second skin,

a shadow-woven slowness.

You see nothing beyond.

You feel nothing beyond.

The undertow is strong.

Little larva, you are held here.

However much you try to leave

this shadow-skin is yours, your own

Grief

a migraine that returns

Grief

a migraine of the soul

Grief

The undertow is strong

Grief

is finding

its way

to bring you to the end

of whatever tether bound you

to life as it was before,

guiding you

to the end

of whatever you thought you were or knew

of yourself.

Here

at end's ending

is where you find the way out

to the afterwards.

The undertow, you know now, will never

go away

but you

have crossed the grieflands

and carry the shadow-gift:

you can feel it, deep

in your shining tides of blood

your body's beat

aware

hungry again

awake

alive.

Esa Aldegheri is a Scottish / Italian academic and activist working in the field of migration and integration. She speaks five languages, is a researcher at the University of Glasgow and Chair of Edinburgh City of Sanctuary. @aldeghesa

The Earthing project is a year long collaborative exploration in response to nature and experience. There will be a series of twelve short films. Each shot in a day during the named month, under the predominating weather conditions.

Palmer, McKinnon, Sandelin, Dermatopoulou & Shaw are a collective of filmmakers, performers and artists. We are influenced by nature, environmental activism, poetry, female surrealists, history, mythology, water, fire, play, storytelling and each other.

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Soundtracks:

February: Shadow Gift by Matthew Shaw @matthew_shaw

The grieflands written and performed by Esa Aldegheri @aldeghesa

January: Lunaria Annua by Matthew Shaw

December : La Buidhe Bealltain by Matthew Shaw

https://texlahoma.bandcamp.com/album/...

November : Web Of The Green World by Matthew Shaw

https://texlahoma.bandcamp.com/track/...

earth /əːθ/

verb gerund or present participle: earthing

1. connect (an electrical device) with the ground

2. drive (a fox) to its underground lair (of a fox) run to its underground lair

3. cover the root and lower stem of a plant with heaped-up earth

The Earthing project is a year long collaborative exploration in response to nature and experience. There will be a series of twelve short films. Each shot in a day during the named month, under the predominating weather conditions.

Palmer, McKinnon, Sandelin, Dermatopoulou & Shaw are a collective of filmmakers, performers and artists. We are influenced by nature, environmental activism, poetry, female surrealists, history, mythology, water, fire, play, storytelling and each other.

Soundtracks:

January: Lunaria Annua by Matthew Shaw

December : La Buidhe Bealltain by Matthew Shaw

https://texlahoma.bandcamp.com/album/...

November : Web Of The Green World by Matthew Shaw https://texlahoma.bandcamp.com/track/...

earth /əːθ/

verb gerund or present participle: earthing

1. connect (an electrical device) with the ground

2. drive (a fox) to its underground lair (of a fox) run to its underground lair

3. cover the root and lower stem of a plant with heaped-up earth

The Earthing project is a year long collaborative exploration in response to nature and experience. Earthing November is the first, a pilot piece for a series of twelve, five minute films. Each will be shot in one day during the named month and under the predominating weather conditions.

Palmer, McKinnon, Sandelin, Dermatopoulou & Shaw are a collective of filmmakers, performers and artists. We are influenced by nature, environmental activism, poetry, female surrealists, history, children, play, storytelling and each other.

Music Web Of The Green World by Matthew Shaw