39. CA Conrad: Poetry, Ritual, and Creativity
Think about eco-poetics as not just a focus on degraded soil, air and water, but vibrational absence. When a species leaves the planet, they take everything with them. Their heartbeat, their flutter, their footfalls, their hooves. In the past 50 years, the planet has seen a 60% loss of all the wildlife. We've recently found out that we've lost 50% of the coral reefs in that time. Europe has lost 75% of its flying insects. I immediately started making rituals to create a place of extreme present. That's the purpose of what I do. And, when I am doing these rituals -- translate into all art forms.
\n\n"Each morning a blue jay screams at the edge of the clear cut forest
\nI scream with her at the bleeding stumps
\nScream inside something borrowed like ocean, like skin
\nI want to see before I die a mink wearing a human scarf..."
\u2013 CA Conrad
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