Rebecca Solnit, in A Discipline Information to Getting Misplaced, suggests there are two definitions of loss. To lose an object, an individual, a spot. A literal disappearance. Or to lose your self, which is much less about deficiency and extra about give up, about being with what’s unknown, unknowable mysterious. This isn’t at all times a straightforward panorama to traverse, as a result of it means relinquishing concepts of management. However what’s discovered is perhaps price it. ‘Not until we’re misplaced, in different phrases, not until we’ve got misplaced the world,’ Henry David Thoreau writes in Walden, ‘do we start to search out ourselves, and notice the place we’re and the infinite extent of our relationships.’
Right here we’re. Someplace in-between misplaced and located, exploring Thoreau’s infinite extent of relations. Problem Two of Wonderground has emerged amid the hazy panorama of COVID-19 lockdowns in Sydney, Australia. It has come collectively in a means that’s more and more acquainted. Me right here, you there, phrases flying in from the opposite facet of the world, or simply down the highway. It feels one thing like a borderless, boundaryless cloud, hovering within the air above my tiny studio subsequent to the river. It’s my accountability, and privilege, to someway tether it to the bottom. Form it right into a kind that is smart.
Wonderground is a publication that exists to attach hearts to soil, via story. The tales in subject two of Wonderground obtain this, exploring notions of misplaced and located in methods which are profound, poetic and sometimes mad. It’s with nice satisfaction, and hope, that I share them with you.
There’s a phrase that has adopted me round as I’ve labored on this subject. A sentence, penned by Robin Wall Kimmerer, that goes a good distance in direction of articulating the underpinnings of Wonderground Problem Two. It’s brief, easy, and maybe all that must be mentioned. This: ‘The land is aware of you, even when you find yourself misplaced.’
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Wonderground Problem Two: Desk of Contents
- Artist Invoice Henson strikes his childhood backyard – rock by rock, tree by tree
- Cecil Howell explores concepts of loss and renewal within the botanical world
- The battle to avoid wasting an historical tree amid a Black Summer season firestorm, as informed by Jason Cotter
- Exploring the connection between gardening and the thoughts with Sue Stuart-Smith
- Gamilaraay girl Marika Duczynski will get to know Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River
- New writing by award-winning creator Amy Leach
- Michael McCoy on a e book that had a profound impact on his life
- Georgina Reid writes of other-motherhood
- David Whitworth explores new and outdated methods of seeing nature
- Poetry by David Whyte, Dakota Feirer and Monique Germon
- Camille Rouliére tastes loss and love within the backyard
- Robert Champion makes buddies with an endangered plant
- David Godshall of Terremoto chats about re-making panorama structure
- New fiction by award-winning creator Inga Simpson
- Artist Clare James tells of the thrill of going off monitor
- Elizabeth Farrelly discovers the truth of life on the land
- Neha Kale uncovers fertile floor within the artwork of Agnes Denes, Nicole Foreshew and Asad Raza
- Local weather activist Lille Madden chats about local weather justice
- Gardening will be as a lot about seeing as making, suggests Georgina Reid
- Tim Rushby-Smith learns find out how to cease
Wonderground Problem Two can be launched on October 25, 2021.
