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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.
@earthingproject
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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
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, five minute 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, children, play, storytelling and each other.
Soundtracks:
November : Web Of The Green World by Matthew Shaw https://texlahoma.bandcamp.com/track/...
December : La Buidhe Bealltain by Matthew Shaw
https://texlahoma.bandcamp.com/album/...
