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GEOPARK ARTIST PROJECT - ANNA KELEHER Researching the Agency of Things + Talking with things. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

Like a nuther planet 

Rocks and Soils post (or post Rocks and Soils )

Last week I spent a happy time with Year 3, St Margaret's doing experiments and time travelling as part of Emily's  Rocks and Soils science workshops.  All the mixing, sieving and whirling over I have begun to look at the nuggets left behind. I haven't yet tried to draw the bits that dropped through. But I will.

Here is what I wrote about the sediments in the jar though. 

A kid's world has the plasticity and absorbency of clay allowing an easy slippage between worlds. As we grow up our world contracts and solidifies and  the possibility of times travel becomes more remote.

This sounds like a shame, something for us to lament, but from my point of view this solidification process provides me with a job! 

I'm glad too that we have Basalt people and Limestone people, so that our edifices don't just dissolve into the sea the way the sand does in Paignton. 

I don't mean to sound trite ..... but the diverse Rocks and Soils of the bay together create a rich and fascinating environment and its the same with our human population and with the entire ecosystem.

It thrives on diversity. 

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