<div dir="ltr">Hi Renate,<div><br></div><div>I would like to make you aware in your last email you wrote <i>Catherine wrote</i> but you meant <i>Andrea wrote</i>:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">thanks so much for sharing your experience from above with your images </span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">and when you write </span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><i>The Chinese celebrate when it rains because the rain cleanses the air and clears it for the sun.</i></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><i><br></i></span></div><div>Everytime in the growing season when it rains over night and I go to the urban weeds lot here in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in the morning, I observe Artemisia vulgaris (mugwort) grow over night like 2 inches- totally visible the grow and it was fascinating to observe when I flow the same week to Berlin and it rained there as well, Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort) in Berlin did not grow 2 inches overnight- there was no visible change after the rain…so what was in the air in NYC in the cloud that makes its way into the soil and acts as fertilizer…Artemisia vulgaris (mugwort) does like "nitrogen and acid" ground </div><div><br></div><div>We live in cycles with so many transformation between - it acts and re-acts.</div><div><br></div><div>So it seems the rainfall gives for the Chinese a time of "recuperation" after "exertion" of being in this 'smoky" habitat. Is in the time of "recuperation " the time for detox or is it "a rest" for the organs so it can be able to handle the smoke again…</div><div><br></div><div>in weedy solidarity andrea</div><div><br></div><div><font size="1">———————————</font></div><div><font size="1">andrea haenggi</font></div><div><font size="1">artist, choreographer, dancer, educator, radical care sitter</font></div><div><font size="1">CMA/faculty at LIMS</font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://weedychoreography.com">http://weedychoreography.com</a></font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://1067pacificpeople.nyc">http://1067pacificpeople.nyc</a><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://envrionmentalperformanceagency.com">http://envrionmentalperformanceagency.com</a></font><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Renate Terese Ferro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" target="_blank">rferro@cornell.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>Catherine wrote:<br>
…The dynamic wild landscape teaches me about what even means companionship- such as Lambsquarter leaves suddenly got all patterned because it took on the virus from his neighbor<br>
plant so that plant could grow …<br>
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Thanks Catherine for the thoughtful disclosure about your Brooklyn Heights intervention co-existing with Hollywood and the plants in the car garage. Beautiful story about how you were able to learn from the plants and the soil. I have been traveling in Asia this past year and in fact have been in Dalian which is quite north. The visible particulates in the air can be seen most days diffusing the light from the sun. The particulates in the air are formed when solid particles from dust or dirt, coal soot or smoke bond with the tiny liquid drops found in the air. These can actually be seen by the naked eye. The Chinese celebrate when it rains because the rain cleanses the air and clears it for the sun.<br>
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I’ve taken a series of photos from the air and have included a few here.<br>
Looking forward to hearing more about therelationship of your somatic awareness and movement based practices.<br>
Renate<br>
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Renate Ferro<br>
Visiting Associate Professor<br>
Director of Undergraduate Studies<br>
Department of Art<br>
Tjaden Hall 306<br>
<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu">rferro@cornell.edu</a><br>
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