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Notes from: Energy & Adaptation

November 10, 2011

by Trudy

Geologist Alistair Brickell shares his wonder at the ancient creatures found at the Burgess Shales site.

This day was spent as a reflection on connections between energy and adaptation, with House…

Preamble: Energy & Adaptation

November 1, 2011

by Trudy

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The idea that ‘all energy comes from the sun’ had stuck in my mind for…

Notes from: Open Time, Dinner

September 12, 2011

by Trudy

Two tables joined across from a breakfast in Denmark and a dinner in New Zealand.

Though a structural element of our everyday, the concept of time abounds with aporia (puzzles)…

Notes from: Open Time, Workshop

September 12, 2011

by Trudy

As we walk through the timeline, evolutionary biologist Mike Dickison notes the serendipitous placement of the slope on the timeline fence as indicative of a period of massive oxygen depletion on the earth. September 10, 2011.

Andrea Polli’s Ground Truth (part 2) interviews[1] with Geoscience researchers in the Antarctic first drew…

Preamble: Open Time, Deep Time

August 22, 2011

by Trudy

Still from Andrea Polli's work, Ground Truth (part 2).

The artist Andrea Polli’s interviews with Geoscience researchers in the Antarctic[1] first drew my attention…

Notes from: Atmospherics & the Experiential

June 12, 2011

by Trudy

Below: NOAA-Hysplit rendering of the paths the air breathed that night had taken in the six hours prior. Shown as part of a discussion of Ramon Guardan’s SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens work, on the interconnected circulation of the global oceans of air.

Relating to [maori] elders what had just happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the elders responded…

Notes from: A Dinner for a Lepidopterist

May 23, 2011

by Trudy

A facsimile of the glowing fields of the moon as they looked from our side porch.

If Antares was where our sun is now, we would be engulfed by it. –…

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