Re: [-empyre-] summ(er)ing up thank you

[Stella Brennan <stevid@xtra.co.nz>]

hello, goodbye,
thanks to Melinda for the invitation to participate this month,  
although it has been difficult at times to abandon the sunshine for the  
ole cathode glow.

As danny wrote, a list (and particularly one i usually only lurk on,  
like empyre) is a strange place, often with an enormous disjuncture  
with the everyday [as when i met danny on friday night at a party, and  
we DID NOT SPEAK about anything related to our online disagreements].

the first time i ever posted was on ada, the list i set up - and my  
mode of participation is (apart from occasional grumpiness) founded in  
an idea of hospitality - on good days i see myself as a hostess,  
floating round, topping up drinks, introducing shy guests and, maybe,  
as a way of starting off, talking about the weather.  as a result,  my  
posts are a bit over-cheery and generalised.

as a sculptor with an installational practice, thinking about space and  
the specificities of embodied environments is key.  I am interested in  
environmental restoration because, for me it is embued with a utopian  
spirit and an ethos of guardianship,  and because the idea of imagining  
a land without human inhabitants is a rich paradox, a (far from  
historically innocent) way of thinking about that nature/culture divide.

preoccupation with biosecurity, the feral and the invasive are the  
distopian flipside.

a few sites:
http://www.doc.govt.nz/index.html
http://www.arc.govt.nz/arc/index.cfm?9BF8461E-8F6B-4201-9FDC- 
A7DF36A29AF6
http://publicgis.northshorecity.govt.nz/website/Internet/GISInternet/ 
viewer.htm

thanks again.
best
stella