Siding with Cedar

Language is a scaffold for architectures which create, inform and shape infrastructures- actual spaces for connection, coherence and sensemaking among cultural and biological complex adaptive systems which are relational, multilayered and shifting over time and space.

I work/play at weaving experience for which we do not have language but merges and moves through us as dimensionalities, connected and breaking apart.

Held in light by bonds of caring and desire for wholeheartedness, for healing, for inclusion not exclusion, to be filled with joy and gratitude, openness not fear, anger or contraction. I feel backward and forward in time. My feet touch ground in a lake forest on Ho Chunk and Menominee land in Wisconsin beside the western shore of Lake Michigan, held sustainably for thousands of years, graced by hundreds of trees on a half hectare, ephemeral ponds in spring, a spotted salamander in fall, where summers I have coffee with amphibians whom I notice never once hop backwards.

This half hectare was shaped and held by Ho Chunk whose name describes themselves as People of the Big (Sacred) Voice. It is shaped by over 400 Cedars which can live up to 1500 years…