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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

TECHNOLOGY ON THE MOVE 

Just as blogs piggy back on other sites; mine is also on the English Riviera Geopark website, our technology hitches a ride with us. Have you ever seen it like that?

Cameras, mobiles, binoculars and other Things are really good at getting us to carry them around in ever more comfortable cases. I don't know how it's happened, really I don't, but after the mobile sled from Montbretia leaves and some sandal from Montbretia as well, I began making a Geopark carry case for my audio recorder from Torbay Palm.

The image my camera retrieved from inside the evolving carry case looks very much like a cosy nest. Well it is a cosy nest and if a weaver bird can do this sort of thing then so can we. When I say "we" I mean my audio recorder, Torbay Palm and my fingers ......

Al of us together in collaboration!

Like us our technologies are not in themselves environmentally friendly, far from it of course, but I do have to commend them on their ability to appear at least sustainable. It hasn't passed me by that just in my job as an artist find it economic to tap into pre-existing infrastructures, Things  try to minimise their environmental impact too, in this case by making use of the mobility and dexterity of a car driving, bi-pedal hominid. 

I'm travelling the Geopark and if my equipment wants to find a way to come along. Fine.

Piggy-backing after all is a very successful system of propagation much used in the Natural World.  Parasites. bacteria, viruses, barnacles, seaweeds and berry seeds find hosts to transport themselves increasing their range and scope for success.

Any way I'll leave you with the image something I came across in the woods of Vitosha National Park, Bulgaria.

A canny tiny oak sapling nested on the deck of a cast off sandal!

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