This photo is the first installment in my creative project. It is not a new photo, I took it a year ago and set it as the background of my laptop. It might be my favourite photo I've taken. It is the launch pad and inspiration for my creative project because it describes my thinking about this quote:
“But really good writing is both inside and outside the garden fence. It can be a few beans but also some wild poppies, vetches, mariposa lilies, ceanothus, and some juncos and yellow jackets thrown in. It is more diverse, more interesting, more unpredictable, and engages with a much broader, deeper kind of intelligence. Its connection to wildness of language and imagination helps give it power.” (Snyder, 2000)
This quote has made me think about those places where the juxtaposition of inside and outside the metaphorical fence can be seen. The spaces where the natural world has been formed by humans or the human-world has been re-taken by nature are what interests me now.
Snyder, G. (2000). Language goes two ways. Found in McEwen, C., & Statman, M. The alphabet of the trees: A guide to nature writing. Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
“But really good writing is both inside and outside the garden fence. It can be a few beans but also some wild poppies, vetches, mariposa lilies, ceanothus, and some juncos and yellow jackets thrown in. It is more diverse, more interesting, more unpredictable, and engages with a much broader, deeper kind of intelligence. Its connection to wildness of language and imagination helps give it power.” (Snyder, 2000)
This quote has made me think about those places where the juxtaposition of inside and outside the metaphorical fence can be seen. The spaces where the natural world has been formed by humans or the human-world has been re-taken by nature are what interests me now.
Snyder, G. (2000). Language goes two ways. Found in McEwen, C., & Statman, M. The alphabet of the trees: A guide to nature writing. Teachers & Writers Collaborative.