I have lived in Los Angeles from 1967 to 1980; The differences in places are the trees in both places, however the NYC trees are more abundant, and different kind of trees. My early life was growing in Springfield, Mass. where the varieties of trees are also very abundant. I live now, just next to Central Park, and obviously the trees are very present and important to share. Some say that trees also have consciousness, and they are obvious and very important in the history of people and planet earth. Trees are our most direct and important living connection to Nature. I am friends with the artist Simone Forti, who now lives in Los Angeles, who also lived for many years on the east coast and in NYC. I once went to a performance of hers at a dance studio downtown near the WTC. She permed her "Locomotion" piece, and described a journey that she made to Washington square park, where she described the movement of a squirrel, and tried to fashion that in her dance moves. She finally surrendered that the movement of the squirrel was so fluid that she could not do justice to the movement of the squirrel, so then she described her vision of one of the great and old trees in the park, and then fashioned her posture in a very settled structure to describe the tree and its branches, and when she fond and settled on the shape of the tree and the branches, she established the form of her body to imitate the tree, and when she settled on that form, Tears began flowing from my eyes. So Simone had in her art married nature, and became Nature in herself and the tree, Of course we and you Tosh are familiar with the image and details of the tree of life, "The Seperoth" one of the most profound examples of Hebrew knowledge and the religion of living. ALSO, I recall seeing some early video pieces by my friend Yoko Ono, when she walked into the Central Park "Imagine" garden, and hugged a big tree like a lover. ALSO, when the attack on the Ukraine began, there was an on-line set of images of older Russian women hugging trees like lovers; and I wondered about that, and Now. Of course the history of Wicca holds a good deal of nature worship; also to say WHY do women so love trees? haha. Us men have things to learn and love from the influence on earth of Woman. PS no edits in this Tosh.
I have lived in Los Angeles from 1967 to 1980; The differences in places are the trees in both places, however the NYC trees are more abundant, and different kind of trees. My early life was growing in Springfield, Mass. where the varieties of trees are also very abundant. I live now, just next to Central Park, and obviously the trees are very present and important to share. Some say that trees also have consciousness, and they are obvious and very important in the history of people and planet earth. Trees are our most direct and important living connection to Nature. I am friends with the artist Simone Forti, who now lives in Los Angeles, who also lived for many years on the east coast and in NYC. I once went to a performance of hers at a dance studio downtown near the WTC. She permed her "Locomotion" piece, and described a journey that she made to Washington square park, where she described the movement of a squirrel, and tried to fashion that in her dance moves. She finally surrendered that the movement of the squirrel was so fluid that she could not do justice to the movement of the squirrel, so then she described her vision of one of the great and old trees in the park, and then fashioned her posture in a very settled structure to describe the tree and its branches, and when she fond and settled on the shape of the tree and the branches, she established the form of her body to imitate the tree, and when she settled on that form, Tears began flowing from my eyes. So Simone had in her art married nature, and became Nature in herself and the tree, Of course we and you Tosh are familiar with the image and details of the tree of life, "The Seperoth" one of the most profound examples of Hebrew knowledge and the religion of living. ALSO, I recall seeing some early video pieces by my friend Yoko Ono, when she walked into the Central Park "Imagine" garden, and hugged a big tree like a lover. ALSO, when the attack on the Ukraine began, there was an on-line set of images of older Russian women hugging trees like lovers; and I wondered about that, and Now. Of course the history of Wicca holds a good deal of nature worship; also to say WHY do women so love trees? haha. Us men have things to learn and love from the influence on earth of Woman. PS no edits in this Tosh.
One of your best, Tosh. Helped make my Sunday feel like a Sunday.