Tetris

‘It was when we first spent time on the land…’ Bob Salisbury on pp.1 of Field of Dreams, he goes on to describe his acquiring a plot of land in co. Tyrone NI and how it was without wildlife so he built a successful sanctuary. He describes a connection to nature that was established in his childhood playing, just playing. I too have a story of childhood, that of a bicycle that I loved, this relationship too was established through play and in time I cared for the bike until I thought this was a childish fascination and outcast the machine to its underclass role of servitor, to be maintained but not loved. It was not until I began to draw that this respect began to emerge again. Meditating on materiality its creative forces and its drive to be seen as object, a device not to be subjugated but allowed to be as utility and beauty within its own sense of existence, as a form of pleasure as heavenly as you wish it. So I drew objects, just little bits and bobs and created objects from these musings, the objects would allow the new object to remain as device that enabled an ambition and cause of reflective ability, as a space for thought and a place for connection not only with self but with the object itself, as they speak slow synergy if the mind is silent. Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay entitled The Poetic Principle he asks us to connect with the soul of the poet but also in ‘fancy’ to the characters that he creates. This is what I believe is the nature of objects and their material constructs that abstract them from ourselves, us being both as master and servant of the world, being creative in themselves as we unravel the bind of our path to acceptance of things, as they are, ideas. This then is where I make my point that ideas do not belong to us but to the world as the shining dust of ethers illumination, some cloud the vision granted but all is of a greater force than ourselves it is all there and all here, within and without the individual mind. In so saying connection to nature can be had in the strangest of fashion.