The story of this Camellia Hedge is a story of a woman dressed in pink who has been rushing around in her nice clothes, and then gets caught in the rain without an umbrella. “Spoiled!” she says to herself, as she takes stock of her soaked clothes, her soggy shoes, her fallen hair, her dripping mascara.
Storefront window sign in downtown cafe shows the connection that one person who loses their job due to the “ COVID-19 : Fear and Uncertainty “ has to our whole economic system. Similar to the roots of a tree, one person’s loss of income has far reaching effects. In the diagram above, nature symbolizes our interdependence. Does our town then appear to be a dying forest effected by disease? If so, how can we nurse this system back to health?
I first met Jenny Hale as a fellow student in Jude Bischoff's, The Business of Art class series and we became instantly good friends and followers of Jude's. Then a few years ago, we reunited when I was involved with Ruth Chase's Belonging Project and Jenny was involved with CHIRP's Visibility Through Art exhibit. Jenny and I, found ourselves attracted to each others work and excitedly starting conversing about collaborating on a performance art project together. We dreamed of a creative work set in nature while diving deep to mine for the many faceted issues around the planet we live on and our ever increasing needs for its resources. Fast forward. We got the grant we dreamed of from the California Humanities for All Project Grant, December 2020! Good news and then some Holy Sh-t! Everything we touched on learning in Bischoff's classes we now are having to do for real. We just want to be artists making art! But someone has to run it as a business. So that is ...
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