Think About The Birds…….Blood-red Aten….… Food For Thought…..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Bernie Bell - 09:20 on 04 November 2023
Think About The Birds…
Julie Stevens posted the following on the Orkney Wildlife Facebook page… https://www.facebook.com/groups/133013273445588/?locale=en_GB
“I know I’m not the only person to have grave concerns about the swans and other birds who’s home is the peedie sea.
How in this day and age can fireworks and bonfire be allowed every year on Guy Fawkes night at the Peedie Sea?
Orkney is well renowned for its bird life yet we think it’s acceptable to terrorise them and drive them from their home for our enjoyment.
I’ve supported Service Users in the past (I work in Social Care for OIC) and I’ve had swans flying just over my head in a blind panic trying to escape what must be a terrifying experience.
Swans are a very well known protected species yet it continues every year.
I’ve spoke to SSPCA and Animal Health. Nothing can be done. Just education surrounding these events.
Why can’t the display be held at Bignold Park in future? I’m really not a killjoy but animals can’t speak for themselves so I’m trying my best to speak on their behalf.
Thank you.”
Julie received a lot of supportive responses…here’s my tuppenceworth…
“Bignold Park would be an obvious solution. If a permit is needed for the display - then the responsibility could be with the organization which allows - or doesn't allow the display to take place by the Peedie Sea. Would that be OIC?
Further thoughts...it's too late for this year's Bonfire night, but with a concerted effort it could be changed in time for next year - and applied to any other, similar events to be held near the Peedie Sea.
Fact is...I'm agin' the whole business... https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/11/05/remember-remember/ “
If it has to happen – best if it’s organized and made as safe as possible for all forms of life.
PS
A few folk have suggested wasteland on the Hatston industrial estate - which sounds like an even better idea!
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Blood-red Aten….……
I happened on Vernon Bradley’s Facebook page - Facebook throws all these folk at me that I ‘might know‘ - some I do, some I don’t, and some I don’t want to!
Vernon has been painting and has produced images that are…..something else. He previously had an exhibition in the Loft Gallery, St. Margaret’s Hope, but there was no use me going there as I can’t manage the spiral staircase these days – it’s a lovely spiral staircase but …I can’t manage it.
I asked where his next exhibition will be, and Vernon says it’ll be in Einar, Westray.
I won’t be able to get to that either – but…but...but - thought I’d mention his paintings here in m’blog as those images are …..individual, extra- ordinary, compulsive - as in - a compulsion to step/dive into them.
Here’s Vernon’s Facebook page – see for yourself….
https://www.facebook.com/vernon.bradley.397
Better still, go to the exhibition. I’ll post more details as I see them.
Doesn’t Orkney attract and encourage some extra-ordinary people with extra-ordinary vision and ability to express their vision?
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Food For Thought…
A lot of thought….
https://earthlogs.org/2023/11/02/relics-of-the-moon-forming-impact/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
at our Shifting Landscapes Exhibition
When we contemplate the relationship between our breathing selves and the breathing planet, we encounter this great question: Where does my body end, and where does the world begin?”
— Ersin Han Ersin
At our Shifting Landscapes immersive exhibition next month, acclaimed experiential art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast will premiere their large-scale audio and video installation Breathing with the Forest, offering a chance to participate in the rhythmic interchanges of life in the dense Colombian rainforest along the Amazon river. Bearing witness to the changes unfolding across the Earth, Shifting Landscapes invites you to step into deep entanglement with the living world. Within this space, Breathing with the Forest is a profound opportunity to experience the intimate reciprocity inherent in our breath.
This installation traces the movement of a Capinuri tree’s xylem and phloem and conjures the subterranean mycorrhizal network that lies beneath, giving us a glimpse inside the hidden pathways that keep the forest alive. Conceived as an open-eyed meditation, you’ll be invited to synchronise your breath with the pulsing rhythms of the rainforest, creating a sense of deep continuity with the forest—and the wider, breathing planet.
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/11/05/hedgehogs-and-bonfires/
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