The Prayer Pods Project
Honoring the ever-changing nature of Nature
So I put up some paper and started to draw what I felt. Feeling and drawing. Then I tried to explore that shape in clay.
I do know at some point the shape on the ground will be about 5 feet long, which means that is a lot of clay. Throughout the process, other thoughts arise; i.e., Impermanence, what we seed, what we plant.
It started with a dream of the complete piece. And like any other dream, the details have dissolved, but the feeling, shape and concept remain.
In the dream I saw theses "seed" shapes in a hole in the ground, that is the same shape as the "seed" shapes. (seed-pod where not how I saw it in my dream, it is how my mind has learned to talk about them)
Each of the 300 clay seed pods in this installation represents 1000 species that are going extinct this year. Yes, that’s 300,000 species going extinct, each year.
Spirit speaks to each of us differently: in rich metaphors that we experience in a journey, sometimes with a flash of clarity and knowing in our waking day, and sometimes in dream state.
